TENSES:

SIMPLE PRESENT
SIMPLE PAST
SIMPLE FUTURE

By CORINNE VONG SIU PHERN, Ph. D

Simple PRESENT
Tense of Verbs:
e.g.
i) The moon is round. (a
fact)
ii) She combs her hair
daily.
(a habitual action)
Simple PAST Tense
of
e.g.
Verbs:
i) I took a bath just now.
(completed action in the
past)
ii) The weather was fine last
night.
(completed condition in the
Simple FUTURE Tense
of Verbs:
e.g.
i) Father will bring us to the zoo

tomorrow. (a possible future

event)
ii) Mother is so angry with Aiman
that she
is going to spank him any


TENSES:
PROGRESSIVE PRESENT
PROGRESSIVE PAST
PROGRESSIVE FUTURE

By CORINNE VONG SIU PHERN, Ph. D

Progressive PRESENT
Tense
Also known as:
Present
Continuous
Tense
PRESENT Continuous
Tense of Verbs:
e.g.
i) Afiq is jogging on the
treadmill. (event which started
earlier is still continuing)
ii) Alyaa is trying to find a solution
to the
problem. (for a longer period of
time,
Progressive PAST
Tense
Also known as:
Past
Continuous
PAST Continuous
Tense of Verbs:
e.g.
Syuhada was
knitting her shawl
the whole night.
(an action at a
specific point of time
Progressive
FUTURE Tense
Also known as:
Future
Continuous
FUTURE Continuous
Tense of Verbs:

e.g.
Alim will be taking
part in
tomorrows race.
(an action at a specific
point of
TUTORIAL QUESTION
1. In small groups, create 2 paragraphs, underlining and labelling the tenses.
a) PARAGRAPH 1 :
3 coherent sentences depicting
i) The Simple Present Tense
ii) The Simple Past Tense
iii) The Simple Future Tense

b) PARAGRAPH 2 :
3 coherent sentences depicting
i) The Present Continuous Tense
ii) The Past Continuous Tense
iii) The Future Continuous Tense

2. Share your short group paragraphs with your coursemates and lecturer for
feedback.