1. Grammar Summary

In English, tenses are formed by conjugating an auxiliary verb plus a standard form of the principal verb (the base form, the gerund form, or the past participle form). It is import to focus on the variations in the auxiliary verb to properly use English tenses.

Symbols Used:

S (subject) Aux (auxiliary verb) O (objects) ? (question word, i.e., who, what when, etc.)

Construction:

In general, using the following patterns to construct sentences in active sentences.

Positive: S + Verb + O Negative:S + Aux + Verb + O Question:(?)+ Aux + S + Verb + (O)

Past Simple

Use the past simple when an action is done at a SPECIFIED point in time in the past.

Auxiliary: DID

Examples:

She moved to New York last month. They didn't want to buy a new television last week. Where did you go on vacation last year?

Past Continuous

Use the past continuous for something that is happening at a precise moment in the past. This form is often used to express an interrupted action in progress.

Auxiliary: WAS / WERE

Examples:

I was working on the project when you telephoned. What were you doing when she arrived? They weren't watching the film when you arrived.

Past Perfect

Use the past perfect for an action that finishes before another action in the past. We often use the past perfect when is giving reasons for a decision made in the past.

Auxiliary: HAD

Examples:

They had invested their money wisely before they bought the new house. She hadn't finished speaking when he rudely interrupted her. Had you checked all your accounts before you made the withdrawal?

Past Perfect Continuous

Use the past perfect continuous to express the duration of another activity up to another point in time in the past. This form is often used to stress impatience or importance of the length of time of the previous activity.

Auxiliary: HAD BEEN

Examples:

We had been waiting for two hours when Jack finally arrived. They hadn't been working long when he telephoned. Had she been telephoning a long time before you arrived?

2. Additional texts for quick reading turquoise

Refreshing and Sophisticated: A mix of blue and green, turquoise has a sweet feminine feel while the darker teal shades add lively sophistication.

Nature of Turquoise: A blend of blue and green, shades of turquoise have the same calming effects of those colors.

Culture of Turquoise: This in-between color represents water, thus the names aqua and aquamarine. It's also a valuable and popular mineral often turned into jewelry. Turquoise is closely associated with the Middle East and the American Southwest.

Turquoise Words: These words are synonymous with turquoise or represent various shades of the color turquoise. Teal, ultramarine, blue-green, aqua, aquamarine.

PINK

Cotton Candy and Little Girls: Pink is a softer, less violent red. Pink is the sweet side of red. It's cotton candy and bubble gum and babies, especially little girls.

Nature of Pink: While red stirs up passion and action, studies have shown that large amounts of pink can create physical weakness in people. Perhaps there is a tie-in between this physical reaction and the color's association with the so-called weaker sex.

Culture of Pink: In some cultures, such as the US, pink is the color of little girls. It represents sugar and spice and everything nice. Pink for men goes in and out of style. Most people still think of pink as a feminine, delicate color.

Language of Pink: The use of pink in familiar phrases can help a designer see how their color of choice might be perceived by others — both the positive and negative aspects.

Good pink

• In the pink - healthy

• Tickled pink - happy, content

• Pink collar - female office worker (sometimes used in a derogatory manner)

Bad or neutral pink

• Pink collar - female office worker (sometimes used in a derogatory manner to imply low person on the office totem pole)

• Pink - cut, notch, or make a zigzag

Pink Words: These words are synonymous with pink or represent various shades of the color pink. Salmon, coral, hot pink, fuschia, blush, flesh, flush, fuchsia, rose.