TENSES
Tenses tell when the action of the verb takes place. Using tenses correctly and consistently improves the readabilityof your writing.
English has six tenses, each of which has a Progressive form. The Simple and Perfect tensesaddress action as a whole; these actions have a foreseeable beginning and end.
LEARNING ABOUT VERB TENSES
SIMPLE PRESENT, PAST, AND FUTURE
TENSES
This unit will help you to understand the simple present, past,Tenses tell when the action of the verb takes place. Using tenses correctly and consistently improves the readabilityof your writing.
English has six tenses, each of which has a Progressive form. The Simple and Perfect tensesaddress action as a whole; these actions have a foreseeable beginning and end.
The Progressive forms of these tenses convey motion, continuous action, or an action that is currently in progress. Use a form of the verb to be, such as am, were, been, etc., and add -ing to the main verb to construct the Progressive, e.g. she cried (Past tense) becomes she was crying (Past Progressive). Definitions and conjugations of all six tenses are on the reverse of this handout.
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LEARNING ABOUT VERB TENSES
SIMPLE PRESENT, PAST, AND FUTURE
TENSES
and future tenses of a verb. You will be able to write
sentences using the correct tense, and to identify the correct
tense of a verb.
present tense: The verb shows action that happens regularly.
example: Brandon plays football with Lee.
past tense: The verb shows action that happened.
example: I wrote a story about animals.
future tense: The verb shows action that will happen.
example: Lisa will read to us.
Read each of the following sentences and write present, past
or future on the line.
1. Betsy saw a black snake. ________________________
2. Gwen will go to school. ________________________
3. Mike eats ice cream. ________________________
4. Cindy will play basketball. ________________________
5. Ashley feeds her three cats. ____________________
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The Perfect Tenses
The tenses of the perfect system (perfect, pluperfect & future perfect) are all formed off theperfect stem, obtained from the third principal part of the verb. Note the regular principal
parts for 1st and 2d conjugation verbs: vocö, -äre, -ävï, -ätum and dëbeö, -ëre, -uï, -itum.
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