The 11th week in BEL120 (:

TUESDAY:

Past Perfect Tense

Past perfect tense verbs are formed with the helping verb had and the verb's past participle.

They show an action that came before another action in the past.

Here are some examples:

The team had won before I arrived.My sister had just left when we walked in the door.

Although this verb tense shows an action that came before another action in the past, that other action does not have to be stated in the sentence.

It can simply be implied.

For instance, these sentences are still made with the past perfect verb tense although the past action is not state like it is in the sentences above.

The team had won.My sister had just left.

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What Is a Perfect Tense?

Every verb has three perfect tenses.

The three perfect tenses are formed with the helping verbs have, has, had, will and shall and the past participle of the verb.

1. Present Perfect Verbs are formed with the helping verbs has and have.

2. Past Perfect Verbs are formed with the helping verb had.

3. Future Perfect Verbs are formed with the helping verbs will have andshall have.

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Past Participles

You need to know what a past participle is because past perfect verbs are formed using a verb's past participle.

Ready to learn about past participles? Great!

Every verb has what are called four principal parts.

We can take any verb and break it into these parts. Past participles are simply one of those parts of a verb.

Here is a chart showing you some examples of verbs broken into their principal parts.

Present	Present Participle	Past	Past Participle
kick	(is) kicking	kicked	(have) kicked
won	(is) winning	won	(have) won
win	(is) winning	wong	(have) won

If you'd like to learn more about past participles, click here

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Forming the Past Perfect Tense

So, to form the past perfect verb tense, just slap a had in front of the past participle of the verb.

It's easy!

had	+ Past Participle		Past Perfect
had	+ learned		had learned
had	+ won		had won
had	+ graduated		had graduated

You can refer more to:http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/past-perfect-tense.html











WEDNESDAY:
Notes for writing:

• In essay, don't repeat the thesis statements as a conclusion.
• The conclusion:making the end paragraph count:

1. How and why is this topic important?
2. How might this topic affect me or another people? 
3. What can be learned from this topic?
4. Quotation
5. Provocation/provoking question

Reading comprehension: Making inferences

*What are inferences?

• Inferences are often referred to as what you "read between the lines".
• Inferences are what the author implies or suggests.
• The author wants you, the reader to make the jump to same conclusion the author has made.

@ This one of the videos from my activity in class for this topic:

 

you can refer more to:

http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/as/309.HTM