Underline the verbs in the
dog barked at the thief
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The verb in this simple, nearly correct sentence is ‘bark’. The only thing wrong with this sentence is you have used the wrong form of the verb ‘to bark’. The sentence tells us that the incident has already occurred…..agreed?…It’s already happened right? so you need to use a form of the verb ‘to bark’ that tells us the barking has already happened… ‘ed’ often does the trick…yes ‘barked’…if you write “The dog barked at the thief” we will know exactly what happened! To native speakers this is quite straight forward, but I have noticed in Thailand that many people with a very good understanding of English as a second language, have trouble with this past tense of verbs generally, and will say things like…” when I was young, I listen to the radio every day”…of course it should be “ listened “ in this case, when we are talking about the past…not all verbs take this form but try to get to know the ones that do….and when you are pronouncing some of the ‘ed’ (past tense) words, you need to remember that a word such as ‘barked’ is pronounced as BARK-T, not bark-ed, but listened is pronounced LISSIN-D. There are many other ‘ed’ words to be considered if you would like to suffer about them a bit….all the best RODMCNEIL.TV
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