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Introduction In recent years, New York City lawmakers have attempted to transform the admission process for specialized high schools, selective public high schools, by moving away from the SHSAT (Specialized High School Admissions Test). COVID-19 precautions have further complicated the testing process. In October 2020, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the chancellor initially failed to […]

Also Known As: Future Perfect Progressive Tense The next tense is the future perfect continuous tense, which is also sometimes called the future perfect progressive tense. It indicates that something has started in the past and will continue happening for a set length of time into the future. This is noted in the form of […]

Math is a touchy subject for many adults. For a long time in education, people believed you either “got it” or you didn’t. There was no in-between. You were a math person, or you weren’t. This led to a lot of misconceptions about math, as well as about our individual abilities to understand and be […]

Also Known As: Present Progressive The present continuous verb tense is used to show that an action is ongoing or is happening now, whether that be “now” in a direct sense or in a more general sense. This tense can also be used to show that an action will be taking place in the very […]

Also Known As: Past Simple, Past Indefinite, or (rarely) the Preterite Let’s start with the most important issue: NO ONE we actually know uses the term “the preterite”. It is possible that if you are a linguistics professor in a language development program, you MIGHT use that term. Otherwise… it’s way too preterite to worry […]

Also Known As: Future Progressive Tense The next tense is the future continuous tense, which is also sometimes called the future progressive tense, is a tense that indicates that something has started in the past and will continue happening for a length of time into the future. The future continuous tense has not stopped happening. […]

“She will have gone to the store by the time we get home.” The future perfect is a verb construction that tells about something that will take place in the future that is related to another event of some sort that will also take place in the future. These events are not dependent on each […]

Also Known As:Past Perfect Progressive The past perfect continuous (also called past perfect progressive) is used to show that there was an action that started at a point in the past which continued in the past, then stopped at another point in the past. It has a definitive starting point and a stopping point. The […]