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Tenses In English
Types of Tenses:[edit | edit source]
Simple Present Tense, Simple Past Tense, Simple Continuous Tense, Past Continuous Tense, Past Participle etc...
Simple Present Tense:[edit | edit source]
1. For singular, add -s to the end of the verb.
2. For plural, no -s at the end of the verb.
3. For the verb to be, we do not use an auxiliary, even for questions and negatives.
- Look at these examples of simple present tense:
Subject | Verb | |
---|---|---|
+ | I, you, we, they | no -s |
He, she, it | -s | |
- | I, you, we, they | do |
He, she, it | does |
When we use Present Tense?[edit | edit source]
- The keywords are always, often, sometimes and usually
- For example:
- I always play badminton. ( Although there is the keyword "always", the verb after subject "I" cannot add s. )
- He sometimes goes to library. ( Keyword "sometimes" and the subject "he", so can add s. )
Simple Past Tense:[edit | edit source]
1) add -ed
2) change the verb to the past tense form.
3) Here are the list of past tenses:
Verb | Past Tense | Verb | Past tense |
---|---|---|---|
is/am | was | buy | bought |
are | were | bring | brought |
think | thought | win | won |
leave | left | sweep | swept |
rise | rose | read | read ( read as red ) |
swim | swam | blow | blew |
tuck | tucked | roll | rolled |
began | begun | go | went |
hang ( hang someone ) | hanged | hang ( hang a picture ) | hung |
sit | sat | eat | ate |
tie | tied | lie | lied |
sink | sank | sleep | slept |
make | made | take | took |
shake | shook | add | added |
When we use Past Tense?[edit | edit source]
- We use past tense after keyword ago, yesterday, this morning, On year/month/day.
- Example:
- I did the homework yesterday. ( Keyword yesterday and past tense of do is did. )
- I was born on 2012. ( Keyword on and past tense of was is "is" )
Bombs of Tenses:[edit | edit source]
Never use any tenses after these keywords to, can/could, will/would, shall/should, must, may, do/does/did.
Other Lessons[edit | edit source]
- Since and For
- Collocations with pay
- Positions of Pronouns in Sentences
- Collocations with catch
- Count noun
- CONJUNCTIONS → Cause and Effect
- Questions
- Prepositions of Time
- Different Forms of the Verbs
- Positions of Reflexive Pronouns in Sentences