how to use tenses in english

Tenses - When we speak or write, we need to show whether we are talking about something in the present, the past or the future time. Therefore, we have to be careful about the tense we use. PAST Simple Past Past Continuous Past Perfect Past Perfect Continuous He walked..

is used for Present time and Future ti..

The Simple Future tense is used for an action that has still to take plac..

Over the last fifteen years Rita has grown quite a bit. She has become taller. She has grown her hair. Her eyesight has become bad so she is using spectacles. She has got a two-wheeler no..

The Simple Present Tense is used to express habitual action or general truth..

Present Perfect Tense is used to denote an action that began in the past and the effect of which has continued to the present moment. It is often used with since and for phrases. Remember that the specific time in the past when the action happened is often not importa..

Proper use of the various tenses is expected here. Headlines are adaptations of complete sentences. The student is expected to write complete sentences conveying the sense suggested by the headline...

Introduction - Proper use of the various tenses is expected here. Headlines are adaptations of complete sentences. The student is expected to write complete sentences conveying the sense suggested by the headlin..

1. Ram went to the village school. 2. His parents worked in the family fields. 3. His elder brother taught in the village school. 4. Ram studied well. 5. His two sisters had died of cholera when he was five years old. 6. Since then he had promised to himself to become a doctor. Sentences 1 t..

I shall be eating them. When I reach home, my children will be playing. The Future Perfect tense is used to indicate the completion of an action by a certain future time..