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.

Verb Tenses and Passives
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Verb Tenses and Passives
This course is part of Learn English: Advanced Grammar and Punctuation Specialization



Instructors: Tamy Chapman
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Reviewed on Aug 6, 2020
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.
Reviewed on Jun 7, 2021
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.
Reviewed on Oct 22, 2020
The course provides good explanations and examples for each topic. Moreover, the activities help us practice how to use the grammar points, and they are fun to do.
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