That works in a few cases, hanuman, as e.g. the 3rd example, Mr. M. mentioned: "...he has also not brought his book." "Also" by the way is usually negated by "not...either" or "neither" Your sentence "He has also not given me a pencil"

"is -ed" is the passive voice of the Simple Present Tense. "has been -ed" is the passive voice of the Present Perfect Tense. The rules on the usage of the passive of Simple Present and Present Perfect are the same as the rules which are given

Reported speech is the same as indirect speech.

Can I use "about to" with a gerund, too? "I was about going to bed when the phone rang."?

It's impossible to count all verbs, it would be a kind of "Sisyphos"- work: There are thousands of words that can be formed every day as well as words that die out, too. You can make up verbs, or words in general, easily and use them for what

I learned it the same way, pieanne did - and all my grammar books also say that "just" is a signal word for perfect tenses ---> at least in British English. Americn English tends to use "just" with the Simple Past. "Preterite" btw is

This is a problem of messing-up "need" which is a) a full verb and b) a modal helping verb. a) As a full verb, "need" means "require, lack sth" or also "have to". In this case, need conjugates like all the other 'normal' verbs: 3rd person

to be "lie" (not lay)!) Greetings -Pemmican

In those English dialects, "drank" is used as the past participle instead of standardized "drunk", it is of course right to say "to be drank". You should however avoid drank, as it is only used dialectical, and dialect speakers know the

Baby names for animals are especially used for those that have been in domestic use for ages already. The less an animal is for domestic use, the less supposable is a name for its baby animal, though older names that have been in existance