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Tenses at A Glance
Tenses at A Glance
Tenses at A Glance
INDEFINITE SUB +M.V+OBJ SUB+BE VERB ( AM / SUB + PAST Form SUB+BE VERB SUB +SHALL/ SUB+SHALL/WILL+B
IS / ARE ) + PAST of M.V +OBJ ( WAS / WERE ) WILL+ M.V+ OBJ E
( Habitual action, I eat rice. PARTICIPLE of M.V + + M.V-PAST + M.V-PAST
custom,practice ) OBJ I ate rice. PARTICIPLE + I shall eat rice. PARTICIPLE + OBJ
OBJ
Rice is eaten by me. Rice will be eaten by
Add ‘s/es’ with Main Rice was eaten me.
Verb in Third Person by me.
Singular Number (Object of Active
Voice is used as
He eats rice. Subject in Passive
But , They eat rice . voice)
CONTINUOUS SUB+BE VERB ( AM / SUB+BE VERB ( AM / SUB+BE VERB SUB+BE VERB SUB+SHALL /
IS / ARE ) + M.V with IS / ARE ) +BEING + ( WAS / WERE ) + ( WAS / WERE ) WILL + BE + M.V
( Action is going –ing + OBJ M.V -PAST PARTICIPLE M.V with –ing + +BEING + M.V- with –ing +
on for a while ) + OBJ OBJ PAST OBJ
I am eating rice. PARTICIPLE + NOT IN USE
Rice is being eaten by I was eating rice. OBJ I shall be eating
me . rice at that time
Rice was being next monday .
eaten by me .
( Action going
on at some
future time )