This is the first course in the Learn English: Advanced Grammar and Punctuation specialty. In this course, you will review the verb tenses that you learned in beginning English classes and learn about a few tenses you may not know very well. In all, you'll cover all 12 of the English verb tenses and passive verb forms. Most importantly, you'll learn how to blend these tenses, which is what native speakers frequently do. This course is vital to your becoming a more fluent English speaker.
This course is part of the Learn English: Advanced Grammar and Punctuation Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Simple, Progressive, and Perfect Verb Tenses Review
Perfect Progressive Tenses
Passives and Perfect Modals
Blending Tenses
Reviews
- 5 stars85.05%
- 4 stars11.40%
- 3 stars1.43%
- 2 stars0.83%
- 1 star1.27%
TOP REVIEWS FROM VERB TENSES AND PASSIVES
I have learned a lot grammar in this course. It is really help me. I was too bad in grammar, now I got to know which I confused before.
Teacher Jake and Emily, Thank you so much.
Really usefull if you have some english knowledge, but you are not absolutely sure if you are using the correct tense. Videos are really fun! I love the teachers!!
This particular course helps me a lot to realize the difference of all tenses and specially the past tense application. Many many thanks to all my respectable teachers.
It was a very good course.We make so many mistakes without realizing. Especially mixing of tenses while speaking.
A big Thank you to all my teachers.
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