Brake now or you'll break it.
Brake - noun
Examples: use the brakes, stop a car with the foot brake, park using the hand brake break - verb
present tense I break bread with them, you break a lot of things, He/sh/it breaks, we break for tea at 4 pm. Regular events / conditions: Fine china breaks easily. break - noun; examples: we take a break at 11.30, we have tea breaks
Past simple past broke (he broke it, she broke it, they broke it) Passive (verb to break) It is broken! Compound Past I have broken the rules several times you have broken it she/he/it has broken it Distant past (day before yesterday, event preceding another past event) I dropped it and broke it yesterday but it had already been broken in several places I had broken it last weekend but didn't tell them until yesterday. Quick reminder: I break (present or regular action), I shall break (future), I WILL break (future determined and insistent - implying don't you or anybody try to stop me. Will is often used by mistake because second person is you will and many people are not taught and do not teach themselves the fine distinctions you can make with traditional use of English tenses. Angela Lansbury, English teacher and tutor.
Brake - noun
Examples: use the brakes, stop a car with the foot brake, park using the hand brake break - verb
present tense I break bread with them, you break a lot of things, He/sh/it breaks, we break for tea at 4 pm. Regular events / conditions: Fine china breaks easily. break - noun; examples: we take a break at 11.30, we have tea breaks
Past simple past broke (he broke it, she broke it, they broke it) Passive (verb to break) It is broken! Compound Past I have broken the rules several times you have broken it she/he/it has broken it Distant past (day before yesterday, event preceding another past event) I dropped it and broke it yesterday but it had already been broken in several places I had broken it last weekend but didn't tell them until yesterday. Quick reminder: I break (present or regular action), I shall break (future), I WILL break (future determined and insistent - implying don't you or anybody try to stop me. Will is often used by mistake because second person is you will and many people are not taught and do not teach themselves the fine distinctions you can make with traditional use of English tenses. Angela Lansbury, English teacher and tutor.
