Tenses

TENSES

Tenses is used to denote a characteristic of the verb in a sentence. The tense of a verb is a verb is used to depict the particular time in which a specific event is taking place. The three tenses in English are; present tense, past tense, and future tense.

1.  Present Tense

    Present tense is a tense that expresses action or state in the present tie and is used of what is true at the time of speaking or is always true. 

• Simple Present tense: It is used to denote scientific facts, universal truths and work done on daily basis. 

         Example: - He speaks English

                         - She writes a letter

                         - Fire is hot

• Present Continuous Tense: It is used to express an action taking place at the time of speaking.

        Example: -  She is writing a letter

                        -  I' am speaking English

• Present Perfect tense: It is used to show an action that started in the past and has just finished.

          Example: - You have finished your work.

                          -  She has written a letter.

• Present perfect continuous tense: This tense shows the action which started in the past and is still continuing.

        Example: - He has been studying for 3 hours 

                        -  She has been writing a letter

2. Past Tense 

     Past tense is the verb from you use to talk about thing that happened in the past. 

• Simple Past Tense: Used to indicate an action completed in the past. It often occurs with adverb of time. Sometimes it is used without an adverb of time.

        Example: - The doctor went to the                                                hospital yesterday.

                        -  Played football when I was a child.

• Past Continuous Tense:  Used to denote an action going on at some time in the past.

           Example: - I was calling my girlfriend at 07.00 last night.

                            - I was driving a car.

• Past Perfect Tense: Used to describe an action completed before a certain moment in the past, usually a long time ago. If two actions happened in the past, past perfect is used to show the action that took place earlier. 

           Example: - She had helped her mother after she played game.

                            - The patient had died before the doctor came.

• Past Perfect Continuous Tense: Used to denote an action that began before a certain point in the past and continued up to some time in past. 

        Example: - Michael had been sleeping for 5 hours before her father woke up.

                        - I had been learning English in this school for 20 days.

3. Future Tense 

 Future tense is a verb from that generally marks the event described by the verbs as not having happened yet, but expected to happen in the future.

• Simple Future : This tense tells us about an action which has not occurred yet and will occur after saying or in future.

Example: - You will make a cake tomorrow.

                - She will write a letter.

• Future Perfect Tense: It is used to express an action which will happen/occur in future and will be completed by a certain time in future. We use the future perfect to say that something will be finished by a particular time in the future.

           Example: - We shall have arrived in school at 10.00 o'clock.

                            - They will have shifted the house by Sunday morning.

• Future Continuous: It is used to express an ongoing or continued action in future. We use the future continuous to talk about something that will be in progress at or around a time in the future.

           Example: - I will be studying grammar speaking at 08.00 am in ELFAST.

                           - He will be distributing sweets in temple tomorrow at 12 o'clock.

• Future Perfect Continuous Tense: It is used to talk about actions that will commence at a fix time in future and will continue for some time in future.

           Example: - We shall arrived in school at 10.00 o'clock.

                            - This time tomorrow, I will be enjoying the cricket match in the stadium.

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