curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-talk-about-past-activities/6732620bf06cf321860ce9a3.md
Listen to the audio and complete the sentence below.
But now, BLANK a positive user experience BLANK a central part of my development process.
ensuring
Making sure something will happen. This word ends in -ing.
has become
These two words together indicate a change that has happened and continues to be true. The first is an auxiliary verb, the second is the main verb.
Ensuring means making certain that something happens or is maintained.
Has become is in the Present Perfect tense, showing a change that started in the past and is now part of the present.
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