Transcript verb tenses all

A LESSON ON TENSES
WHAT IS
A TENSE?
VERB FORM THAT SHOWS THE TIME
OF ACTION IS CALLED TENSE.
PRESENT
TENSE
KINDS
OF
TENSE
1. Simple Present
2. Present Continuous
3. Present Perfect
4.Present Perfect Continuous
PAST TENSE
FUTURE
TENSE
1. Simple Past
2. Past Continuous
3. Past Perfect
4.Past Perfect Continuous
1. Simple Future
2. Future Continuous
3. Future Perfect
4.Future Perfect Continuous
TENSES
TENSES
TENSES
PERFECT
CONTINUOUS
TENSES
PERFECT
CONTINUOUS
SIMPLE
PAST
PRESENT
FUTURE
SIMPLE PAST
SIMPLE PRESENT
SIMPLE FUTURE
We moved to Istanbul in 2003.
I have a shover every morning.
I will help you with that project.
PAST CONTINUOUS
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
FUTURE CONTINUOUS
I was watching a film when he arrived
They are having lunch at the moment.
She will be waiting for you at the airport.
PAST PERFECT
PRESENT PERFECT
FUTURE PERFECT
Mike has arrived. He is here now
The match will have started
before we get there.
PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS
PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS
FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS
It had been raining all day when we left.
You have been doing your best
since you started here.
Mum will have been waiting for us
for ages when we get home.
Tom had done his homework
before he left home.
PRESENT TENSE
All present tenses are generally denote an
action or state that happens in the present
Simple Present is usedRamu will get up at 6 tomorrow.
Ramu got up at 6 yesterday.
Ramu got up at 6 today.
Past
Present
Ramu gets up at 6 every day.
1. To express a habitual action
Future
Study the following sentences.
The sun rises in the east.
Water freezes at 0 o Centigrade.
2. To express general truths
Honesty is the best policy.
..Tom passes to Sam, Sam to Kim ,
Kim back to Sam …. And Sam
3. To express vivid narrative
shoots- and it’s a goal!!!!
and momentary actions.
The train arrives at 7.54.
I start my work tomorrow.
The school reopens on next
Monday.
4. To express future events
(planned)
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
Study the following sentences
-The students are sitting in the room.
1. To express an action going on at
- He is writing on the board.
the time of speaking
- I am listening to the teacher.
-We are learning French.
-I am playing cricket these days.
-He is reading Harry Potter.
2. To express a temporary action
which may not be going on at the
time of speaking.
The dog is getting bigger every day.
PAST
NOW
3. To express developing and
FUTURE changing situations.
PRESENT PERFECT
We use the present perfect to say that something in the past is
connected with the present in some way.
Finished Action
Result Now
-Somebody has shot the manager.
-The manager is dead.
-I have broken my leg.
-I can’t walk.
-They have completed their work.
-They are free.
1. We often use the present perfect to talk about
finished actions, when we are thinking of their
present consequences: the results that they have now.
-He has just gone out.
-They have worked the sum.
-We have begun the lesson.
2. To denote an action that
has just been completed.
Study these sentences
-We have lived here ten years.
-He has been ill since last week.
-I have always liked you.
3. To talk about actions, states
and situations which started
in the past and still continue.
I have written five letters since lunchtime.
Past
Now
4. We use the present perfect to say that something
has happened several times up to the present
PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS
Past
Mon
Past
Now
I have been running.
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
It has been raining all week.
Sat
Sun
Now
1. To talk about actions, states and situations which started in the past,
is still continuing.
Study these sentences
-He has been learning English for eight years.
-They have been reading this book since morning.
-It has been raining non-stop since Monday.
-We have been living here for six years.
We use since when we mention the beginning
of the period ( Monday, July, 1947)
We use for when we mention the length of the
period (three days, two months)
EVALUATION
Use the correct form of the verb given in brackets.
1. (go) My brother often goes to see English films.
2. (take) He always takes his coffee without sugar.
3. (move) The earth moves round the sun.
4. (know) I have known
him for a long time.
5. (study) We have been studying English for five years.
6. (do) Don’t disturb me. I am doing my work.
7. (read) I am reading
David Copperfield.
8. (leave) They leave for London by the next mail.
9. (go) He has just gone out.
10.( reopen) When does the school reopen
?
SIMPLE PAST
India got freedom in 1947.
He stayed in the hostel last year.
I met my friend yesterday
Past
Now Future
1. To denote an action in the past. ( immediate or distant)
1991
1992
1993
1994
Past
Regularly every summer, Janet fell ill.
2. To denote a habitual action in the past.
‘95 ‘96
Now
Future
PAST PROGRESSIVE
What were you doing at eight o’clock yesterday evening?
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Past
Now
-I was playing cricket.
Future
-They were making a lot of noise in the class.
1. To say that something was going on around a particular past time.
The chief interest is not the time of action, but its continuity.
While A was happening B happened
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As I was walking I met my friend.
2. The past progressive refers to a
longer action or situation.
Simple past refers to a shorter
action or situation that
happened in the middle.
PAST PERFECT
3.30
4.00
Past Now Future
I had done my exercises when Hary came to play
I realized that we had met before.
1. To say that some action had taken place before another was
begun or completed
The action that took place first is put in the past perfect and later in the
simple past.
PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS
Before
Past
Now
When I found Mary, she had been crying for several hours.
-It had been raining since morning when you rang me up.
-When I reached there at 2 p.m., he had been waiting for me.
1. To talk about longer actions or situations, which had continued
up to the past moment that we are thinking about.
EVALUATION
Fill in the blanks with the correct tense form of the verbs given in
brackets.
1. (read) I was reading novel when my friend came.
2. (not rain) It didn’t rain heavily last summer.
3. (write) He said that he had written the letter.
4. (leave) It started raining after he had left.
5. (break) A thief broke into our house last night.
6. (have) We had had our dinner before she left.
7. (rain)It had been raining since morning when you rang me up.
8. (listen) We were listening to the radio all evening.
9. (receive) I received his letter a week ago.
10. (write) At that time he had been writing a novel for two months.
SIMPLE FUTURE
Study the following sentences
-I shall see him tomorrow.
-They will play the match in the evening.
-Tomorrow will be a holiday.
To denote an action
or situation that has
still to take place.
FUTURE PROGRESSIVE
-I shall be reading a paper then.
-They will be playing a match at that time.
-This time tomorrow I will be lying on Malpe.
To say that something
will be going on at a
particular moment in
the future.
FUTURE PERFECT
Study the following sentences.
-I shall have finished my homework by evening.
-She will have cleaned the room before you reach there.
-Before you go to see him, he will have left the place.
To indicate the completion of an action by a certain future time.
FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS
-By six o’clock I will have been sitting here for ten hours.
-He joined the school in June. By December he will have been studying
here for seven months.
To indicate an action represented as being in progress over a period of
time that will end in the future.
EVALUATION
Fill in the blanks with the correct tense form of the verbs given in
brackets.
1. (finish) I will finish
this work by tomorrow evening.
2. (wait) We will be waiting for you when you come back.
3. (come) The train will have come
before you reach the station.
4. (sit) When you come, I will be sitting in the school library.
5. (phone) I will phone
6. (do) He will do
you when I come back.
it for you if you like.
7. (finish) I will have finished my work by the time you come back in
the evening.
8. (live) By next July we shall have been living here for four years.