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PRESENT
P A S T
FUTURE
TENSES ARE
OF
TYPES
Tenses
Perfect
Simple continuous
Continuous Perfect
AND 3 X 4 =
12
SO THERE ARE
12 TYPES
OF
TENSES
SIMPLE PRESENT
This tense is used to describe actions
which take place in the present. But no
definite time is given.
SUB + V1 (s/es)
Examples :
Suresh writes neatly.
Mona plays football. uses
SIMPLE PAST
1) Hi Rahul . Where 2) I went to my village.
were you 4) Oh ! I enjoyed so
yesterday? much that I didn’t
3) Did you enjoy ? want to return.
SUB + HAD + V3
Example : I had solved the sum when the class
began.
exercise
PRESEN T PERFECT
CO NTI NUOUS
This tense is used for actions which started
earlier and are going on in the present. (no
information about when they will finish is
given)
You sleep at 10
You play in
p.m.
the evening.
PROVERBS
LIKES / DISLIKES All that glitters is not
gold.
HABITS
I study at 4P.M. in the
evening.
UNVERSAL TRUTHS
I LIKE RAINBOWS
The Sun rises in the East.
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Exercise on simple present
I ENJOY DANCING
US E O F PAST C ONT INU OU S
Rohan returned
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Exercise on simple
present
Describe your routine.
Example :
I get up at 5 in the morning . I reach
school by 7.30 and study till 1 P.M. in
the afternoon.
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Exercise on simple past tense
study
sleep
go
play help
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Answer the following questions using the
structure of simple future tense :
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Use the following words and form
sentences of the actions going on in
the picture:
Subject : boy , bird , teacher
Exercise on present Verb : write , teach , fly
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EXERCISE ON PAST CONTINUOUS
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Oh hello M r. Dubey ! I Oh yes. I got a job
have seen you after in Goa in 1997.
such a long time. We have lived there
Last time I saw you in
for ten years .
1997
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A truck has hit my car
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Exercise on present perfect
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You have done it again !
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Marvelous !
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Oops!
‘ I have seen the Taj Mahal yesterday.’
Here ‘have seen’ refers to present time
and the word ‘yesterday’ to past and
both cannot come together in one
sentence.
The correct sentence is :
I have seen the Taj Mahal. Or
I saw the Taj Mahal yesterday.
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7 Use
p.m.of past perfect tense Use of past perfect
Food 9 p.m.
9 p.m.
cooked
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exercise
7 p.m.
Guests arrived
•When there are two actions, both in past, then past perfect
tense is used to describe the action which took place first
and simple past tense is used to describe the action which
took place later.
•Example : John had cooked (past perfect) the meal when the
guests arrived(simple past).
Exercise on past perfect
Join the sentences using past perfect tense:
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The worker will have been digging the ground before
the vehicles start coming.
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7 a.m. 9 a.m. Continues digging
starts digging vehicles after vehicles come
come
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Exercise on future perfect
continuous
Join the hints to form complete sentences
1
c) I Running --- the race--- b) he finish
3
a) The teacher teaching ---the class----b) you reach
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SUBJECT-VERB AGREMENT FOR SIMPLE
PRESENT
1st person
(the person speaking)
Bare verb Bare verb
I play We play
2nd person
(the person spoken to)
Bare verb Bare verb
You play You play
3rd person
(the person spoken to)
Verb + s/es Bare verb
He/she/ it/ name plays
They play
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SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT FOR
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
PERSON VERB
1st person Am + verb + ing
I / we Am painting
2nd person Are + verb + ing
You Are
3rd person Is/are + verb +ing
He/she/ it/ they/ name He/she/it/name is
painting.
They are painting.
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SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT FOR PAST
CONTINUOUS
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SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT FOR PRESENT
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