Tenses & Subject-Verb Agreement

What this lesson covers

Tenses & Subject-Verb Agreement is a 10-part Class 6 English lesson. Each part makes one point and then hands over to the next, so it can be read in a sitting or picked up again at the part you stopped on. It defines the idea in plain words before using it, works through an example step by step, breaks the topic into its parts and compares them, shows where it is used outside the textbook, names the mistakes that cost marks in an exam, ends with a recap of what to remember.

How it begins

English tenses carry two pieces of information, not one. When: past, present, future. How: simple, continuous, perfect, perfect continuous. Three times × four aspects = twelve tenses. Seen this way it is a grid, not a list of twelve unrelated things to memorise.

The 10 parts

1. Time and completeness
2. The four aspects
3. Choosing between similar tenses
4. Subject-verb agreement
5. The tricky agreement cases
6. Keeping tense consistent
7. Where accuracy shows
8. Where it usually goes wrong
9. What to remember
10. Watch one worked through