1. The document provides an overview of English verb tenses including their formation, use/meaning, and important clues and cautions.
2. Key tenses covered include present, present continuous, simple past, past continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, and past perfect.
3. Each tense is explained in terms of its grammatical formation, typical uses/meanings, and examples to illustrate proper usage.
1. The document provides an overview of English verb tenses including their formation, use/meaning, and important clues and cautions.
2. Key tenses covered include present, present continuous, simple past, past continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, and past perfect.
3. Each tense is explained in terms of its grammatical formation, typical uses/meanings, and examples to illustrate proper usage.
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1. The document provides an overview of English verb tenses including their formation, use/meaning, and important clues and cautions.
2. Key tenses covered include present, present continuous, simple past, past continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, and past perfect.
3. Each tense is explained in terms of its grammatical formation, typical uses/meanings, and examples to illustrate proper usage.
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NAME OF TENSE FORMATION USE/MEANING CLUES & CAUTIONS
PRESENT I am 1. right now 1. now CONTINUOUS He, she, it is 2. during this period 2. today, this week, (PROGRESSIVE) We, you, they are of time this semester +_____ing 3. future, if the plan is • Watch out for certain (They are noncontinuous She’s watching TV. getting married in verbs. August) • Don’t use DO with BE, SIMPLE PRESENT I, you, we, they + base 1. habit (He jogs Frequency adverbs: form everyday.) everyday, always, He, she it + s or es 2. statement of fact usually, often, (Cats eat meat.) sometimes, seldom, 3. a scheduled future rarely, never event (The bus leaves at 7:00)
FUTURE 1. I am; he, she, it is ; 1. a. future plan, Tomorrow, next week,
you, we, they are b.action that will next year + going + infinitive happen in the (She’s going to go.) immediate future • Will is a modal. (Look out! You’re going Don’t use DO with to fall modals c. prediction • Use only a base 2. will + base form 2. promise, offer, form of a verb after prediction a modal 3. See present and (never write will going present continuous &never write will goes) tenses SIMPLE PAST add ed to base form for finished past actions Dates (1850, 2001), ago, regular verbs. For other when, yesterday, last verbs, see an irregular night, last week, last verb form list. month, last year PAST CONTINUOUS I, he, she, it was 1.a past action that was While (PROGRESSIVE) We, you, they were continuing to go on (I was watching TV last • Don’t use DID with +________ing night at 7:00.) was or were. 2.a past action that was interrupted (We were eating when the phone rang. PAST HABIT 1. used to + base 1.for a habitual state, • with did, drop the form event or action that was ed. (Did you use to 2. true in the past but is no smoke?) I used to live in New longer true • Don’t confuse used York City. to with be used to doing 3. would + base form 2.for expressing actions • Would can’t be or events that occurred used to show When I used to live in regularly during a period location or New York City, I would in the past possession always take a taxi to the theater. FUTURE IN THE 1. was/were going for events or actions that Examples: PAST to___ were planned in the past We knew the wedding 2. would + base verb was going to be on June 15, but we didn’t know where it would take place. PRESENT PERFECT I, you we, they have Relates the past to the 1. for, since He, she it has present time • You must use for or 1. for an action or since for this + past participle (ed for situation that began meaning regular verbs, for in the past and • use for with length irregular verbs see a list continues into the of time and since of irregular verbs) present (I’ve been with a specific time sick since Tuesday 2. so far, today, this and I’m still sick. month, this 2. For a repeated past semester action or for a 3. ever, never, period of time that is already, yet not finished (We’ve • Don’t use specific had three exams this time with this semester.) meaning (Don’t 3. For a past action write “She has when the specific arrived yesterday.”) time is not • Yet is only used mentioned, any time with questions and before now (She's negatives found a new job.) 4. just 4. For an action • Don’t use specific completed in the time with this immediate past meaning (They’ve just finished eating.) • Don’t use do or did with present perfect PRESENT PERFECT I, you, we, they have 1. for an action or for, since with meaning CONTINUOUS He, she, it has situation that began #1 (same as meaning #1 (PROGRESSIVE) in the past and of present perfect) +been +_______ing continues into the • Don’t use do or did present • Watch out for (It has been raining all noncontinuous day long, and it’s still verbs that cannot raining now.) be used with this 2. for an action that has tense: just stopped within the be last few minutes (It’s have (possession) been raining. It’s not own raining now, but the know streets are still wet.) PAST PERFECT had + past participle 1. when telling a story By the time, after, about the past, for before an action that Example: By the time happened before the he came home, his story began family had already 2. for an action that eaten. happened before • Don’t use do or did another past action