Revise: Tenses, Questions, Used to & Adjectives

• Let's review the main grammar points of this unit. We use present tenses for routines and current actions, present perfect for experiences, used to for past habits, and special adjectives for feelings and intensity.
• Grammar Point
• Example Sentence
• Present Tenses
• Mark lives in Boston, but right now he is visiting Chicago.
• Present Perfect
• Have you ever stayed at a boutique hotel in Bath?
• Used to
• Sarah used to travel to Brighton every single summer.
• -ed vs -ing Adjectives
• We were exhausted after the long drive to Manchester.
• Remember
• Use present simple for permanent situations and present continuous for temporary actions.
• Use the present perfect simple for actions connected to the present and the continuous for ongoing recent actions.
• Use 'used to' for past habits or states that are no longer true.
• Use -ed adjectives to describe how someone feels, and -ing adjectives to describe the thing causing the feeling.
• Examples
• Do you know where the nearest bed and breakfast is in Bristol?
• Michael has already booked a lovely countryside retreat in Wales.
• Laura didn't use to like spa weekends, but now she loves them.
• The view of the Scottish mountains was absolutely breathtaking.
• Common mistakes
• Are you knowing where the check-in desk is?
• Do you know where the check-in desk is?
• I am exhausted because the trip was exhausted.
• I am exhausted because the trip was exhausting.

Complete the sentences

• Where (they / stay) ____ this weekend in Seattle?
• Emily (already / book) ____ a room in Liverpool.
• David (not / use to) ____ travel so much for work.
• The kids (be / excite) ____ about the trip to London.
• Could you tell me what time (the train / leave) ____ for Edinburgh?
• We (never / visit) ____ a spa in Brighton before.

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