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English Material Content What Is Tense?      tense  (noun): a verb-based method used to indicate the time, and sometimes the continuation or completeness, of an action or state in relation to the time of speaking. ORIGIN Latin  tempus "time".       The concept of tense in English is a method that we use to refer to time - past, present and future. Many languages use tense to talk about time. Other languages have no concept of tense at all, but of course they can still talk about time, using different methods.

Present Tenses

1. Simple Present Tense This tenses are used to denote something that is fixed, habitual or an essential truth. Because it is often related to the incident at about past, present and future, this at least has the Tenses description for a certain time. FORM: (+) Subject (s) + Verb1 + Object (o) ex: She ate the rice (-) S+do/does not+Verb1+O ex: She doesn’t eat the rice (?) Do/Does + S + Verb1 + O ex: Does she it the rice? I, You, They, We use do when it come to negative and question sentence. While He, She, It use does. 2. Present Continuous Tense This tenses are used to express an action which is actually being done at this time. FORM: (+) S + to be + Verb-ing + O ex: They are riding the bicycle (-) S + to be + not + Verb-ing + O ex: They are not riding the bicycle (?) to be + S + Verb-ing + O ex: Are they riding the bicycle? 3. Present Perfect Tense This tenses are used to express your experience. This sentence can used to say that you ha

Past Tenses

6. Past Continuous Tense This tense is used to say when we were in the middle of doing at a particular moment in the past. FORM: (+) S + was/were + Verb-ing ex: He was reading (-) S + was/were + not + Verb-ing ex: He wasn’t reading (?) Was/were + S + Verb-ing ex: Was He reading? 7. Past Perfect Tense The Past Perfect expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past. FORM: had+past participle ex: I had Listen to the radio when she come home 8. Past Perfect Continuous Tense We use the Past Perfect Continuous to show that something started in the past and continued up until another time in the past. “For five minutes” and “for two weeks” are both durations which can be used with the Past Perfect Continuous. Notice that this is related to the Present Perfect Continuous however, the duration does not continue until now, it stops before something else in the

Future Tenses

9. Simple Future Tense often called will. because, the modal auxiliary verb in this sentence is will. FORM : (+) S + WILL + Verb1 ex: I will dance (-) S+WILL+not+Verb1 ex: I will not dance (?) will + S + Verb1 ex: Will she dance? 10. Future Continuous Tense Future Continuous has two different forms: “will be doing ” and “be going to be doing”. Future Continuous forms are usually interchangeable. FORM: (+) S + will be + Verb-ing ex: I will be going to mosque. (-) S + will not  be + Verb-ing ex: I won’t be going to church (?) will + S + be + Verb-ing ex: Will you going to mosque? 11. Future Perfect Tense This sentence is used when we talk about the past in the future. FORM: (+) S + Will + have + Verb3 ex: I will have finished by 6 PM (-) S + will + not + have + Verb3 ex: I will not have finished by 6 PM (?)  Will + S + have + Verb3 ex: will you have finished Verb3 12. Future Perfect Continuous Tense We use the future perfect contin

Past Future Tenses

13. Past Future Tense this tense is used to express the events that WILL be done, BUT in the past, not the present. FORM: (+) S + would + Verb1 ex: I would go (-) S + Would + not + Verb1 ex: I wouldn’t go (?) Would + S + Verb1? ex: Would you go? 14. Past Future Continuous Tense Past Future Continuous tells an action would be in progress in the past. FORM: (+) S + was/were + going to be + Verb-ing ex: She was going to be Cooking this morning (-) S + was/were + not + going to be + Verb-ing ex: She wasn’t going to be cooking this morning (?) Was/were + S + going to be + Verb-ing ex: was she going to be cooking this morning? time signals for this tense is time in the past like, this morning, yesterday, last night, last week and so on. 15. Past Future Perfect Tense This tense is restates the action stated in Future Perfect Tense but with different time dimension, it is in past time whilst the Future Perfect is in future time (not happen yet). FORM: