TENSES

Verb Forms
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I walk to the Ans: I walked to

store and I the store and I
bought milk. bought milk.

I will eat fish for Ans: I ate fish for

dinner and drank dinner and drank
milk. milk.

We all eat the Ans: We all ate

fish and then the fish and then
made dessert. made dessert.
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Ans: Anne and

Anna and Mike is
Mike are going
going skiing.
skiing.

Matt like fish. Matt likes fish.

We enjoys horror We enjoy horror

movies. movies.
Breakfast at the Grammar Café’-
We are serving plurals today

We'll begin with a box and the You may find a lone mouse or a If the plural of man is always called
plural is boxes. whole set of mice, men,
But the plural of ox should be oxen, Yet the plural of house is houses Why shouldn't the plural of pan be
not oxes. not hice. called pen?

Then the masculine pronouns are

he, his and him,
If I speak of a foot and you show If one is a tooth and a whole set But imagine the feminine she, shis
me your feet, are teeth, and shim,
And I give you a boot, would a pair Why should not the plural of booth So English, I fancy you will all
be called beet? be called beeth? agree,
Is the funniest language you ever
did see.
Examples of Verbs in Different Tenses

• The hardest that I have laughed at a movie was probably

Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was going to throw
up. (The shaded verbs are in the past tense.)

• You laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at you because

you are all the same. (The shaded verbs are in the present
tense.)

• Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium; even its

pleasures are of a grave and solemn complexion. (The shaded
verbs are in the future tense.)
List of Tenses:

simple past past progressive past perfect past perfect progressive

PAST I went I was going I had gone I had been going
I laughed I was laughing I had laughed I had been laughing

present perfect
simple present present progressive present perfect
progressive
PRESENT I go I am going I have gone
I have been going
I laugh I am laughing I have laughed
I have been laughing

future perfect
simple future future progressive future perfect progressive
FUTURE I will go I will be going I will have gone I will have been going
I will laugh I will be laughing I will have laughed I will have been
laughing
 Simple Present Tense-The simple present is used to describe an
action, an event, or condition that is occurring in the present, at
the moment of speaking or writing.

For Example- I play. He / She plays.

Simple
Simple Past Tense-The simple past is used to describe an action,
an event, or condition that occurred in the past.

Tenses: For Example- I played. He / She played.

Simple Future Tense- The simple future is used to refer to actions

that will take place after the act of speaking or writing.

For Example— I shall play. He / She will play.

Kindly Note:
Present Progressive Tenses:

The Present Progressive Tense is used to represent an action that is

going on at the time of speaking.

For Example:
I am working.
He / She is sleeping.
Past Progressive Tense:

The Past Continuous Tense is used to indicate an action that started

in the past and was going on for some time in the past.

For Example:
I was working.
He / She was sleeping.
Future Progressive Tense:

The future progressive tense, sometimes also referred to as the

future progressive tense, is a verb tense that indicates that
something will occur in the future and continue for an expected
length of time.

For Example:
I will be working.
She will be singing at night.
Present Perfect Tense:

The Present perfect tense combines the present tense and the
perfect aspect used to express an event that happened in the past
that has present consequences. This tense is used to show a link
between the present and past and is commonly used in everyday
conversations, in the news, on the radio, and when writing letters.

For Example-
She has lived here all her life.
They have written three letters already.
Past Perfect Tense:

The past perfect refers to a time earlier than before now. It is

used to make it clear that one event happened before another in
the past. It does not matter which event is mentioned first - the
tense makes it clear which one happened first.

For Example- 
I had written the email before he apologized.
The plane had left by the time I got to the airport. 
Future Perfect Tense:

The future perfect is a verb tense used for actions that will be
completed before some other point in the future. The future
perfect tense talks about an action that will be completed
between now and some point in the future.

For Example-
Shannon will have gardened by then.
Robert will have read various kinds of books.
Present Perfect Progressive Tense:

The present perfect progressive tense shows that something

started in the past and is continuing at the present time.

For Example-
He has been studying in the library for three hours.
They have been playing in the ground for two hours.
Past Perfect Progressive Tense:

The past perfect progressive tense shows that an action that

started in the past continued up until another time in the past.

For Example-
We had been walking on the path since evening.
He had been drinking milk out the carton when Mom walked into
the kitchen.
 A: The students will be
writing about you.

Select the future

perfect
progressive B: They will write about
you.
tense:

C: They will have been

writing about you for a
year.
You are hunting for three examples of simple
past:

Will have Has been Have

Will go Caught Danced
done writing written

Am Had been Had

Has eaten Is playing Was doing
decorating complaining launched

Are Were Will have

ran
painting driving completed
John's mom ________ him home from school
most days.

DRIVED DRIVING DRIVEN DRIVES

 Will wait
One day, last
year John Waited
___________
waited for
his mom at the
front door. Did Wait

Wait
Just before he got there, a tree branch
________
crashed down on the car.

WILL CRASH CRASHED CRASHING CRASH

The branch __________
trapped John's mom inside
the car

TRAP TRAPPED WILL TRAP HAVE

TRAPPED
The firefighters _____________
rescued her.

Rescued Will Rescued

Rescuing Rescue
John's mom ___________
will collect insurance money
for the car next month.

COLLECTED WILL COLLECT COLLECTING

COLLECT
Earth's climate _________
will change over the centuries.

WILL CHANGE CHANGES IS CHANGING WAS

CHANGING
Sometimes it ________
will get warmer.

GETS WILL GET HAS GOT HAD GOT

Tropical plants ______
grow in the northern
forests.

GREW GROW WILL GROW WILL HAVE

GROWN
During the last Ice Age, glaciers
____________
covered Canada.

WILL COVER COVERING COVERED WILL HAVE

COVERED
Many animals _______
die in the cold.

Has Were
Die Will die
died died
Today many scientists have
_________
predicted another
change.

PREDICT PREDICTED WILL PREDICT HAVE PREDICTED

Our climate ________________
will become much
warmer.

BECOMES BECOME WILL BECOME BECAME

The ice caps _____________.
will melt

MELT MELTS WILL MELT HAS MELTED

Ocean levels ______________.
will rise

ROSE WILL RISE RISING RISEN

Millions of people ___________
will lose________ their
homes.

WILL LOSE LOST ARE LOSING WILL HAVE LOST

No one ______
knows_ the future for sure, of course.

KNOW KNOWS KNEW WILL KNOW

This ___________
is called global warming.

IS CALLED WAS CALLED HAS CALLED HAS BEEN

CALLING
THANK YOU!