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Verb Tense

The document provides a comprehensive review of English verb tenses, detailing their meanings and uses. It covers twelve tenses, including Simple Present, Present Progressive, Present Perfect, Simple Past, and others, explaining how they express time and actions. Each tense is illustrated with examples to clarify its application in writing.

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Verb Tense

The document provides a comprehensive review of English verb tenses, detailing their meanings and uses. It covers twelve tenses, including Simple Present, Present Progressive, Present Perfect, Simple Past, and others, explaining how they express time and actions. Each tense is illustrated with examples to clarify its application in writing.

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Tense Review

Tense Review
The Importance of Time

Tense expresses the time of an event or action.


Time and how it is expressed in writing is very
important to English readers. The English
language has twelve different tenses. In this
lesson, we will review the meaning of each verb
tense.
The Simple Present Tense
Expresses a habit or often repeated action.
Adverbs of frequency such as, always , daily,
usually, generally, often, seldom, sometimes,
never, every + time words (day , night,
morning,….), etc. are used with this tense.

She goes to work everyday.


They always eat lunch together.
The Simple Present Tense
This tense also expresses general truths,
universal truths, scientific truths or facts that
are timeless.

Snow falls in the December in Kashmir.


Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
The Present Progressive
This tense is used to describe an action that is
occurring right now (at this moment, today,
this year, at present etc.). The action has
begun and is still in progress.

She is typing a paper for her class.


He can’t talk. He is fixing the sink right now.
The Present Progressive
The present progressive can also be used to
describe an action that is occurring in the
present, but is temporary.

Jai is living in Narnaul, but he might move


soon.
The Present Perfect
The present perfect is used to talk about an
event that began in the past and continues up
to the present.

He has lived in Mumbai for two years.


(He began living in Mumbai two years ago and he still
lives there.)
The Present Perfect
The present perfect is also used to talk about
an event that was completed in the past, but
the specific time of the event is not important.

I have seen that movie before.


He has already seen the Taj.
(Specific dates and times are not mentioned.)
Present Perfect
Progressive
This tense is also used to describe events that
have been in progress recently and are rather
temporary.

She has been living in Sirsa for the last two


months, but she plans to move soon.
Present Perfect
Progressive
This tense is used to describe the duration of
an action that began in the past and continues
into the present.

He has been studying grammar for an hour.


She has been cooking all day.
(He is still studying and she is still cooking.)
The Simple Past
We use the simple past to indicate exactly
when an action or event took place in the past.

I visited my sister yesterday.


We went out to dinner last night.
The Simple Past
The simple past is used to describe actions
and/or events that are now completed and no
longer true in the present. It is expressed
generally by last + time words, yesterday, ago
etc.

I attended a seminar in 2003. (I no longer attend


seminars.)
I saw a movie every weekend when I was a
teenager. (I don’t see movies very much
anymore.)
The Past Progressive
The past progressive is used to talk about an
activity that was in progress at a specific point
of time in the past. The emphasis is on the
duration of the activity in the past.

I was preparing for exam while my mother was


cooking dinner.
We were walking in the park around 7 p.m. last
night.
The Past Progressive
The past progressive is often used with the
simple past to show that one action was in
progress when another action occurred.

I was taking a bath when the doorbell rang.


They were taking dinner when the neighbours
stopped by for a visit.
The Past Perfect
This tense describes completed events that
took place in the past before another past
event.

had died Doctor came


Had finished my friend rang

The patient had died before the doctor came.


I had already finished my work when my friend
rang me.
Past Perfect Progressive
This tense is used to emphasize the duration
of an action that was completed before
another action or event in the past.

had been
driving she found the right office

She had been driving around the city for three


hours before she finally found the right office.
The Simple Future
Will and be + going + to are often used to
describe future actions.

Ram will graduate in June.


Maya is going to buy a new car next week.
The Simple Future
The simple present and present progressive
are also used to express future time. These
are often used in connection with schedules.

She is meeting a new client at eleven o’clock.


The train leaves at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow.
The Future Progressive
This tense is used to describe an event or
action that will occur over a period of time at a
specific point in the future.
at 10 a.m. tomorrow
by the time you arrive

I shall be teaching at 10 a.m. tomorrow.


They will be moving their furniture out of the
house by the time you arrive tomorrow.
The Future Perfect
This tense is used to describe an event or
action that will be completed before another
event or time in the future.

will have finished the exam class ends

We shall have finished the exam by the time


class ends tomorrow.
Future Perfect Progressive
This tense describes an action that has been in progress for a
duration of time before another event or time in the future.

finishes cooking

shall have been watering the plants


for two hours

By the time she finishes cooking, we shall have been watering


the plants for two hours.
TenseS
ReviewED
By
DEEPAK BHARDWAJ
PGT ENGLISH
KV NO1, AFS, SIRSA

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