Let’s start the BASIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR OF TENSE
- 1. Present tense 2.Past tense 3. Future tense
- A. Indefinite
- B. Continuous
- C. Perfect
- D.Perfect continuous
Sentences 5 types
- Assertive sentence
Positive –I go.
Negative –I do not go.
- Interrogative sentence
Wh-question –Where do you go?
What are you doing?
How do you do?
Yes/no- question – Do you know?
Yes, I know.
No, I don’t know.
3. Imperative sentence –Let me go.
Let him go.
Let us go.
- Optative sentence –May you live long.
Wish you a happy new year.
- Exclamatory sentence
Alas! He died.
Hurrah! we won the match.
Oh ! what an accident.
What! a sight.
- 1.A Present indefinite (S+V1/V5+O+…)
I go.
I don’t go.
Why do you go?
Do I go?
Does she /he go?
He/she doesn’t go
- B. Present continuous (S+ IS/ AM /ARE+V4+O+…)
I am going.
I am not going.
Are you going?
Where are you going?
- C.Present perfect (S+HAS/HAVE+V3+O..)
I have gone.
I have not gone.
Why have you gone?
Have you gone?
- D.Present Perfect continuous (S+HAS BEEN/HAVE BEEN+V4 + SINCE/FOR+TIME..+O)
I have been reading for five years.
I have been reading since 2019.
I have not been reading.
What have you been reading?
Have you been reading since 2019?
- 2.A Past indefinite (S+V2 +O+…)
I went yesterday.
I did not go yesterday.
Did you go yesterday?
Where did you go?
- B.Past continuous (S+ WAS/WERE+V4+O+…)
I was going.
I was not going.
Was I going?
Where was he going?
- C.Past perfect (S+ HAD +V3+O+…)
I had gone to the market.
I had not gone to the market.
Had you gone to market?
Where had you gone?
- D.Past perfect continuous (S+HAD BEEN+V4+ SINCE/FOR+TIME+O+…)
I had been going.
I had not been going.
We had been learning English for 3 years.
we had been learning English since 2018.
Had you been going?
Where had you been going?
- 3.A Future indefinite (S+ SHALL/WILL+ V1 + O+..) ( I, WE- SHALL)
I’ll write a story.
I‘ll not write a story.
Will you write a story?
Who will you write a story?
- B.Future continuous (S+SHALL BE/WILL BE+V4+O+…)
I’ ll be writing a story.
I’ll not be writing a story.
Will you be writing a story?
What will you be writing a story?
- C.Future perfect (S+ SHALL HAVE / WILL HAVE +V3+ O+…)
I’ll have written a story.
I’ll not have written a story.
Will you have written a story?
What will you have written a story?
- D.Future perfect continuous (S+SHALL HAVE BEEN /WILL HAVE BEEN+V4+SINCE/FOR+ TIME+ O..)
I’ll have been writing a story.
I’ll have not been writing a story.
Will you have not been writing a story?
What will you have been writing a story?
Since –point of time eg- since Monday
Since morning, since evening, since 2019
For– for five days, for five years, for many years.
Third-person singular subject (he.she it, name ) –does, has, has been, s/es, ( reads, goes)
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