Transcript Warm-Up: Verb Tenses

Warm-Up: Verb Tenses
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Directions: Identify the following sentences’ verb tenses.
Remember that there are six different tenses: present,
past, future, present perfect, past perfect, & future perfect.
1. We were just passing by.
2. I did wait on the corner.
3. We have finally solved the puzzle.
4. I will return your book for you.
5. Jill is taking chemistry this year.
Present, Past, & Future Tense
 Grammatical
tense that illustrate when
the action is occurring.
Present Forms:
 I go, I am going, I do go
 Past Forms:
 I went, I was going, I did go
 Future Forms:
 I will go, I will be going
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Perfect Forms & Present Perfect
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Add auxiliary or auxiliaries to past participle
The most common auxiliaries are forms are:
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Be, can, do, may, must, ought, shall, will, has, have, had
PRESENT PERFECT
 Consists of past participle with "has" or "have”
 Designates action which began in the past but which
continues into the present or the effect of which still
continues
 Examples:
Betty has taught for ten years.
 I am happy to have participated in this campaign!
 John had hoped to have won the trophy.
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Past Perfect
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Designates action in the past just as simple
past does, but the action of the past perfect is
action completed in the past before another
action.
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Example:
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John sold vegetables that he had raised.
If I had done my exercises, I would have passed the test.
I think George would have been elected if he hadn't
sounded so pompous.
Future Perfect
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The future perfect tense designates action that
will have been completed at a specified time in
the future.
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Example:
 By Saturday noon, I will have finished my
housework.
 I will have gone an additional twenty miles than
I did last week.
 James will have been going to the same church
for twenty years this Sunday.
Review
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Directions: Change the following verbs to their perfect
form.
1. Judy saved thirty dollars. (past)
2. Judy will save thirty dollars. (future)
3. Judy has saved thirty dollars. (present perfect)
4. Judy had saved thirty dollars by the end of last month.
(past perfect)
5. Judy will have saved thirty dollars by the end of this
month. (future perfect)