Question

define tense and their types

Answer 1

Tenses mean it indecate time present, past and future
It is four type :
Indefinate
Continuous
Perfect
Perfect continuous
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Answer 2

Tenses

=>tenses indicate time

Tenses are of three types :-

• Present
• Past
• Future

They are further classified into 4  types

• Simple
• Continuous
• Perfect
• Perfect continuous

Simple Present Tense-

subject+verb+object  (formula)

Uses -

1. To express Present event
2. To express Present condition
3. To express  habitual action
4. To express universal truth

Simple Past Tense

subject+verb+object (formula)

Uses -

1. To express something that took place in the past
2. To express a habit in the past
3. To express historical event.
4. To express a single act in the recent past

Simple Future Tense

subject+shall/will+verb+object = Formula

Uses -

1. To denote an action that will take place  in future
2. For prediction of events
3. To expect hope or expectation or prediction or an intention

Present continuous tense

formula - subject + is/are+verb+ing+object

Uses-

1. To express an action going on at the time of speaking
2. To mark the action that will happen in future
3. To express  a habitual action

Past continuous tense

formula - subject+be verb(was/were) + verb+ing+object

Uses -

1. To express an action happening in the past
2. To express an action in progress before another action in the past.
3. A habit in the past with all, always or continuously

Future continuous tense

formula - subject+shall/will+be+verb+ing

Uses -

1. denotes an action going on at some point in future
2. an action going on when another action takes place
3. a planned event

Present perfect tense

formula- subject+have/has+verb+object

Uses -

1. To express an action that has just been completed
2. to express a past action , the result which still continues
3. to express a time in future when such words are used - when,before, as soon as, till,after
4. began in the past but continued up to the present

Past  perfect tense

formula - subject+had+verb+object

Uses -

1. to denote an action which had been completed at some point in the past before another action started.
2. used with the time conjunction -- as soon as, when, after
3. used with -- no sooner-than, hardly-when.

Future perfect tense

formula - subject+shall/will+have+verb+object

Uses-

1. this denotes an action will be completed at some point of time in future

Present perfect continuous tense

formula - subject+have/has+been+verb+ing+object

• this shows that the action began in the past is continuing upto the present

Past perfect continuous tense

formula-subject+had+been+verb+ing+object

future perfect continuous tense

• an action in progress over a period of time that will end in the future

formula- subject+shall/will+have been+verb+ing+object