The document explains the rules for forming and using several English verb tenses including the present simple, past simple, present continuous, present perfect, past continuous, present perfect continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous tenses. It provides conjugations of to be and modal verbs for each tense and examples of positive, negative and interrogative sentences.
The document explains the rules for forming and using several English verb tenses including the present simple, past simple, present continuous, present perfect, past continuous, present perfect continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous tenses. It provides conjugations of to be and modal verbs for each tense and examples of positive, negative and interrogative sentences.
The document explains the rules for forming and using several English verb tenses including the present simple, past simple, present continuous, present perfect, past continuous, present perfect continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous tenses. It provides conjugations of to be and modal verbs for each tense and examples of positive, negative and interrogative sentences.
The document explains the rules for forming and using several English verb tenses including the present simple, past simple, present continuous, present perfect, past continuous, present perfect continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous tenses. It provides conjugations of to be and modal verbs for each tense and examples of positive, negative and interrogative sentences.
+ know knows ? Do you know? Does he know? I don’t know. She doesn’t know. - (don’t = do not) (doesn’t = does not)
THE PAST SIMPLE TENSE
Regular: infinitive + -ed, -d
Irregular: II column
I / you / he / she / it / we / they
liked (regular) + the film saw (irregular) Did you like ? the film? Did he see We didn’t like - the film. They did not see THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE To be + Present Participle (infinitive + -ing)
I you / we / they he / she / it
+ I’m going. You’re going. He’s going. ? Am I going? Are you going? Is he going? - I’m not going. You aren’t going. He isn’t going.
THE PRESENT PERFECT TENSE
Have/has + Past Participle
PP of regular verbs: infinitive + -d, -ed
PP of irregular verbs: III column
I/ you / we / they he / she / it
have worked has worked + have seen has seen Have you worked? Has he worked? ? Have they seen? Has she seen? I haven’t worked. He hasn’t worked. - We have not seen. She has not seen. THE PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE
Was/were + Present Participle
I / he / she / it we / you / they
+ was working were working
? Was I working? Were you working?
- I wasn’t working. You weren’t working.
THE PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE
Have/Has been + Present Participle
I/ you / we / they he / she / it
+ Have been working. Has been working. ? Have you been working? Has he been working? - I haven’t been working. He hasn’t been working. THE PAST PERFECT TENSE
Had + Past Participle
I / you / he / she / it / we / they
Had worked + Had seen Had you worked? ? Had he seen? We hadn’t worked - They had not seen
THE PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS
Had been + Present Participle
I / you / he / she / it / we / they
+ Had been working. ? Had you been working? - We hadn’t been working.