Question

how to better in tense

Answer 1

Tips To Improve Your English, Past, Present, and Future Tense
First of all to start, there are three main tenses in English, Past, Present, and Future.

Present signifies that something is happening right now. Ex. "I am walking to the store."

Past signifies that something has already happened. Ex. "I walked to the store."

And Future signifies that something will happen. Ex. "I will walk to the store."

Now, you can see that even in the explanatory sentences the "happen" changed and we had a different helping verb (will, has, have, etc; anything that helps to define the tense.)

For Future tense we had, "will happen".

For Past, "happened".

For Present, "is happening".

Then in the actual sentences we had a change as well.

Future: "Will walk"

Past: "Walked"

Present: "Walking"

But also notice the first part of the sentence changed.

Future: "I will walk"

Past: "I walked"

Present: "I am walking"

And that's the hard part, it's not just a matter of adding I-N-G or E-D on to the end of a word, it is making sure that the whole sentence matches the tense.

For example, "I am walked" would not make sense because it has, "I am", present tense, and then, "walked" past-tense. You must always ask yourself, "what is the tense of my sentence?" and make sure that every word matches the tense.

An easy way to do this is to think about what you're trying to express.

Are you talking about something in the future? "I want to be an actor one day."

Are you talking about something that's happening now? "I take acting classes."

Or are you talking about something that happened in the past? "I was an actor."

It must seem very complicated, but if you keep practicing, you'll definitely get them down.

Answer 2

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>> English Grammar may be a nightmare for some people coz of tense. Here are some tips to vanish that nightmare and make it a good dream!!

>> First of all, lemme explain you various types of tenses in English. You better read it and understand what is each law.

>> PRESENT TENSE

> THE SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

• Used for habitual or repeated action, that is, for something that we always, everyday, often, usually etc..
•Used for general truth.
• Used for something happening now.
• Used instead of future tense.
• Used instead of past tense, to make something more real.
• Used instead of present perfect
• Used to introduce a quotation.

>> PRESENT CONTINOUS TENSE

• Used to show that something is still happening.
• Instead of future tense.
• Used to use 'is going'
• Used to show an action which appears many times.

>> PRESENT PERFECT TENSE.

• Used to show an action which has nust been completed/a past action when the time is not mentioned. The action may be a recent one/ it may be one which happened a long time ago
• Used for an action that is still happening. it has begin in the past .
• Used often with 'just', 'already', 'recently', 'never', 'yet', and (in question) with 'ever'
• Used often to answer question which contain a verb in past perfect.

>> PRESENT PERFECT CONTINOUS TENSE.

• Used to show an action just completed or continued up to now.

> PAST TENSE

>> SIMPLE PAST TENSE.

• Used to mention a past action where time is mentioned.
• Used to show past action that had been completely done in past.
•Used to show habitual past action.

>> PAST CONTINOUS TENSE.

• An action was going on in the past when something else happened.
• Used to show action that was going on at certain time at past.
• Used for 2 actions that were going on the same time in past

>> PAST PERFECT

• Used for action that was completed before another action took place.
• Used in indirect speech

>>PAST PERFECT CONTINOUS

• Used for an action that had been going on in past before another action occured in past.

> FUTURE TENSE

• It is used to show some action that is going to happen in future.
• + going to.

>> SIMPLE FUTURE

• Used to show future action that will happen in future
• 'going to' is used.

>> FUTURE CONTINUOUS

• Used to show continuous action at some future time .

>> FUTURE PERFECT.

• Is used for an action which wil have finished by some future time which is mentioned before another action has began.

>> FUTURE PERFECT CONTINOUS

• Shall / will have been + a present participle

> If you study these concepts, the tenses will not be no more a tension for you.

> Besides this, watch English films, cartoons, speak English etc..

Hope it helps. <3