Tenses in 9 Days; Day 6

Day 6:  Use of Helping Verbs
To make Negative and Interrogative

Look at the tables give below:

	PRESENT	PAST	FUTURE
SIMPLE	No H.V + 1st form	No H.V + 2nd form	will + 1st form
CONTINUOUS	is/am/are + ing form	was/were + ing form	will be + ing form
PERFECT	has / have + 3rd form	had + 3rd form	will have + 3rd form
PERFECT CONTINUOUS	has been / have been + ing form	had been + ing form	will have been + ing form

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	PRESENT	PAST	FUTURE
SIMPLE	I go.	I went.	I will go.
CONTINUOUS	I am going.	I was going.	I will be going.
PERFECT	I have gone.	I had gone.	I will have gone.
PERFECT CONTINUOUS	I have been going.	I had been going.	I will have been going.

You can easily observe that all the sentences except Present Simple and Past Simple (red in colour) contain a helping verbs.

Now you have to understand and learn two rules which enable you to convert them into Negative and Interrogative sentences very easily.

Rule I:

To make negative, put “not” just after the helping verb.
Rule II:

To make interrogative, put the helping verb in the beginning of the sentence and a question mark in the end.

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By now, you are able to:

• Make formula table for all 12 tenses (assertive).
• Convert 10 tenses to Negative and Interrogative.

NEGATIVES

	PRESENT	PAST	FUTURE
SIMPLE	--	--	I will not go.
CONTINUOUS	I am not going.	I was not going.	I will not be going.
PERFECT	I have not gone.	I had not gone.	I will not have gone.
PERFECT CONTINUOUS	I have not been going.	I had not been going.	I will not have been going.

INTERROGATIVES

	PRESENT	PAST	FUTURE
SIMPLE	--	--	Will I go?
CONTINUOUS	Am I going?	Was I going?	Will I be going?
PERFECT	Have I gone?	Had I gone?	Will I have gone?
PERFECT CONTINUOUS	Have I  been going?	Had I been going?	Will I have been going?

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Interesting Information:

THERE ARE 23 HELPING VERBS	is, am, are, was, were, will, shall, has, have, had, would, should, can, could, must, may, might, do, did, does, be, being, been
If you find any sentence which contains any of these words, you have the same rules of conversion: i.                   To make negative, put “not” just after the helping verb ii.                 To make interrogative, put the helping verb in the beginning of the sentence and a question mark in the end.