By switching on and off each element you can create all possible verb forms: I work = present – so there is no past, no negative, no modal, no perfect, no progressive and no passive, all that remains is subject and verb in the present tense (although the full form still has an auxiliary which we will need to use for past and negative forms – I do work). HUW- So, I would like to think that the BBC would say to me, well look, you’ve got a lot of experience and you’ve got a skillset as a presenter that you could share with others, and I’d like to do that. I think that is important honestly, I do. HUW- I can be anxious without being depressed. I’m anxious about little and big things. But depression is totally different. That’s when you sink into a state where you can’t really help yourself. With anxiety you can do certain things, you can manage anxiety in certain ways; you’ve got little techniques. With depression if it really takes hold I’ve found myself at one point I couldn’t get out bed because you can’t do anything, you can’t speak to people, you don’t want to see anybody, you don’t want to speak to people, you feel that everything’s too much, you can’t deal with anything. That’s a terrible kind of cloud that just comes over you and you can’t shift it. And that is a proper illness. This is something that’s got to be said as well, I’ve got colleagues, they mean very well, but when they talk about depression it’s like they’re talking about a bit of, ‘Oh you’re a bit worried about something?’ Uh, no, it’s not that. It’s when your life comes to a grinding halt. You can’t do anything. And you need much more than a bit of a friendly chat to get out of that. HUW- Whereas you might have very good and meaningful things to say about other stuff as well. That issue I recognise. With me – that’s a very blunt question do I regret it – once or twice when people have said very, very stupid things, yes.

HUW- That’s if I’m allowed to do it. But I would love to do that because I think that’s going to be quite spectacular. All this stuff about cut-price Coronation, forget that. I think they’ll do a good show. I don’t know, I’d say to both of you and to everyone listening really taking stuff for granted in life is one of the worse things you can do. I kind of come into work – sorry, I know you need to finish – if I make a mistake when I’m doing my job that will give me days of worry. EMMA- Yes, absolutely. But we’ve had no uptake on those alternative formats, not even a bad dream, and maybe you should try harder. Come on, get that telepathy going, lads. The other thing I’d say about this job and mental health, it’s to do with the pressure that people are under. Now, this is not saying that journalism is a more pressurised job than anything else, of course it’s not. You’re not operating on people and saving people’s lives, so I’m not making silly comparisons. But you are under daily pressure to deliver. And if you don’t deliver, well there are questions to be asked about your job and whether you can do the job and all the rest of it. So, they are quite important questions about you as an individual, and therefore that daily pressure brings its own issues. NIKKI- It’s Access All, the BBC’s weekly disability and mental health podcast. I’m Nikki Fox and I’m in London. I’ve got a dozen or so teaching methods that introduce I have got within the first few units and got(past), it just shows he has no idea what a British irregular verb table looks like, (rather than for the US) ‘got’ is both past tense and past participle. On this particular point, the difference between Am and Br is simply that (British) IRREGULAR verb to get has a different past participle to the one he has learnt. For us got is both the past tense and the past participle. Has he ever heard a British person use the past perfect expression I had gotten? Of course not = we had got, just like we still have got, a different way of doing it.Who would you say you’re closest to out of the other contestants? Did you forge any unlikely friendships?

MARK- No, it’s continuing. Basically it’s every six months more or less. And certainly in countries that are using it, like America, their programmes are every six months they’re giving shots of it. By switching these elements on one-by-one we can make the following constructions, not all of which describe actual possible situations for any given verb, depending on the meaning of the verb:For many people the pandemic is still not over. One group known as the Forgotten 500,000 represents the half a million people across the UK, many of whom are still shielding, who have weakened immune systems, which mean they could become seriously ill or even die if they got COVID. Unfortunately vaccines just do not work for them. NIKKI- Ah, okay, I get it. And Mark, you’re from the Forgotten 500,000, you have a chronic illness yourself and you’ve been shielding. Can you tell us a bit about that? What were your fears for the final? Did you have anything you were particularly worried about when going into it? Have is used as a main verb for possession. It is also used as an auxiliary verb in the present perfect. NIKKI- Paul, I understand that there was a big meeting this week to decide what’s going to happen next. Can you tell us who was there and what the latest is?