Cambrian College

First Digital Campus in Bangladesh

Md. Abdur Razzak Sarker Associate Professor

Department of EnglishCambrian College Dhaka.

Tense denotes the time of the action indicated by a verb. The time is not always the same as that indicated by the name of the tense.

Objectives

By the end of the lesson you will be able : to identify different tenses. to know the kinds of tenses to know structures of sentences in different tenses.

At one particular time in the future, it will happen.

Ex: Jason will go to bed at 12 o’clock.

will go will do

One thing will happen in the future, and it will be in process at a particular time in the future, and it will probably continue.

Ex: Katie will be sleeping when her father comes home.

will be + (verb + ing)

Future perfect tense expresses action which will be completed before a certain time in the future. (This is the before-future tense)

It uses the helping verbs will have or shall have and the past participle of the verb.

Example: He will have finished the paper before next Friday.

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Structure: Subject + Shall/Will + Have + Past Participle form of Verb +Object.

They + will + have + done + it. (sub.) + (will) + (have v.) + (p.p.of v.) + (obj.)

Verb Forms

Regular Irregular

Regular verbs form their past tense and past participle by adding –ed or –d to their present tense form.

More than 95% of all English verbs are regular.

Regular verbs cause few problems in speaking and writing.

Principal Principal Parts:Parts:

Verb:Verb:

Present Present TenseTense

Present Present ParticipleParticiple

Past Past TenseTense

Past Past ParticipleParticiple

To callTo call call, call, callscalls

callingcalling calledcalled (have) (have) calledcalled

To dustTo dust dust, dust, dustsdusts

dustingdusting dusteddusted (have) (have) dusteddusted

Irregular verbs can form their past tense and past participle forms in various way.

These forms cause even native speakers innumerable problems.

The most irregular verb of all is the verb to be.

Another irregular verb that is important for its use with other verbs is the verb to have.

Principal Principal Parts:Parts:

Verb:Verb:

Present Present TenseTense

Present Present ParticipleParticiple

Past Past TenseTense

Past Past ParticipleParticiple

To BeTo Be be, am, be, am, are, isare, is

beingbeing was, was, werewere

(have) (have) beenbeen

To HaveTo Have have, have, hashas

havinghaving hadhad (have) (have) hadhad

Principal Principal PartPart

VerbVerb

Present Present TenseTense

Present Present ParticipleParticiple

Past TensePast Tense Past Past ParticipleParticiple

To seeTo see see, see, seessees

seeingseeing sawsaw (have) (have) seenseen

To doTo do do, doesdo, does doingdoing diddid (have) (have) donedone

To flyTo fly fly, fliesfly, flies flyingflying flewflew (have) (have) flownflown

To runTo run run, runsrun, runs runningrunning ranran (have) (have) runrun

A conjugation of a verb is the correct arrangement of its form through its tenses, persons, and numbers.

Person means the speaker, the person spoken to, and the person or thing spoken of.

Number means singular or plural.

TenseTense SingularSingular PluralPlural

PresentPresent I amI amYou areYou are

He, she, it isHe, she, it is

We areWe areYou areYou areThey areThey are

PastPast I wasI wasYou wereYou wereHe wasHe was

We wereWe wereYou wereYou wereThey wereThey were

FutureFuture I shall beI shall beYou will beYou will beHe will beHe will be

We shall beWe shall beYou will beYou will beThey will beThey will be

Present PerfectPresent Perfect I have beenI have beenYou have beenYou have beenHe has beenHe has been

We have beenWe have beenYou have beenYou have beenThey have beenThey have been

Past PerfectPast Perfect I had beenI had beenYou had beenYou had beenHe had beenHe had been

We had beenWe had beenYou had beenYou had beenThey had beenThey had been

Future PerfectFuture Perfect I shall have beenI shall have beenYou will have beenYou will have beenHe will have beenHe will have been

We shall have beenWe shall have beenYou will have beenYou will have beenThey will have beenThey will have been

Answer the following question. (a) Can you differentiate present simple and simple

past tense?

True or false. If false, give the correct answer.(a) Tenses play insignificant role in English language. True/false.

Identify the tenses of the following sentences.

The above sentence is in simple

past tense.

Now try to fill in the blanks with verbs of correct tenses discussing in groups from the hands out.

Write a paragraph in about 100 — 120 words about Environment Pollution using the correct tenses.

All the best.

Thank you.

Thank you.