Tenses & types

 

Tenses

A tense is the form of a verb that shows the time something happened, or going to happen: present tenses: things that are true when the words are spoken or written.

There are three types of tenses.

1)    present

2)    past

3)    future 

For example;

I am a student.           (present)

It  was beautiful tree.   (past)

He will be a doctor.        (future)

In English, each of these tenses can take main aspects, simple, perfect, continuous,(also known as progressive), and prefect continuous

1)     simple

2)     perfect

3)     continuous

4)     perfect continuous

The present, past, and future tenses are divided in to 12 major verb tenses

1)     present simple

2)     present continuous

3)     present perfect tense

4)     present prefect continuous

5)     past simple tense

6)     past continuous tense

7)     past perfect tense

8)     past prefect continuous tense

9)     future simple tense

10)   future continuous tense

11)   future perfect tense

12)  future perfect continuous