Grammar Revision: Questions, Tenses, Used to & Adjectives

• In this lesson, we review key structures needed for agency life: question formation, present tenses, the present perfect, past habits with used to, and gradable or -ed/-ing adjectives.
• Grammar Area
• Structure / Example
• When to Use
• Present Tenses
• I work at a studio in Boston. / She is juggling projects now.
• Habits vs. current actions in tech and design.
• Present Perfect
• Have you finished your timesheet? / We have won two pitch works.
• Past actions connected to the present moment.
• Used to
• Mark used to work in London before moving to Seattle.
• Past habits and states that have changed.
• Adjectives
• The brief was exhausting. / The agency is absolutely huge.
• -ed/-ing feelings and extreme modifiers.
• Remember
• Use auxiliary verbs (do/does/did) for standard questions and inversion for subject/object questions.
• Use present simple for permanent agency roles and present continuous for temporary sprint tasks.
• Use used to + infinitive for past agency routines that no longer happen.
• Never use very with extreme adjectives like brilliant or massive; use absolutely instead.
• Examples
• Do you report to the creative director in Chicago?
• How many billable hours have you logged this week?
• Sarah used to design logos in New York last year.
• The new client roster looks absolutely incredible.
• Common mistakes
• Where you work in San Francisco?
• Where do you work in San Francisco?
• The pitch work was very amazing.
• The pitch work was absolutely amazing.

Complete the sentences

• How many (billable hour) ____ have you logged today in Austin?
• She (work) ____ as an art director in Boston.
• Have you (finish) ____ your timesheet for Seattle yet?
• Mark (use to) ____ be a freelancer in Chicago before joining us.
• The UI design sprint is quite (exhaust) ____ for the team.
• Could you tell me who your (account manager) ____ is in New York?

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