1. What is a Tense? A tense tells us when an action happens. There are 3 times: Present – action happening now or regularly Past – action that happened before Future – action that will happen later Each time has 4 forms: Simple Continuous Perfect Perfect Continuous So, there are 12 tenses. 2. Forms of a Verb We use four common verb forms while learning tenses. Form Name Example: V1 Base form go V2 Past form went V3 Past participle gone V4 -ing form going Examples eat → ate → eaten → eating write → wrote → written → writing play → played → played → playing take → took → taken → taking Remember: V1 = basic verb V2 = past V3 = used with has/have/had V4 = -ing form 3. PRESENT TENSE A. Simple Present Use: We use it for: habits routines facts general truths Formula: Subject + V1 + Object For he, she, it, we usually add s/es. Examples: I play cricket. They go to school. She plays cricket. He goes to school. Common words: a...
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