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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.
fwel¨‡Z †Kvb wbw`©ó mg‡q KvR m¤úbœ n‡e †evSv‡Z Future Perfect Tense e¨eüZ nq|
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.