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
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It was a beautiful journey of learning some new ways to use verbs and tenses in the correct form . Thank you all the faculties for teaching us amidst this pandemic.
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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.
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I really enjoyed taking this course because it's so interesting. Taking it was like a reminder to me of what I previously learned from high school. Thanks to the creator(s).
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