Please tell me all the tense past present and future and all of their types......better if examples r also given
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Broadly there are three tenses: present tense, past tense and future tense.
There are further subdivisions of tenses in each of them. The tense tells the time of occurring of the action indicated by the verb.
I eat an
apple. - simple present tense
I am eating an apple - present continuous tense
I ate an apple - simple Past tense
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I was eating an apple - past continuous tense
past participle - is : done, eaten , ran, written etc..
I have done - present perfect tense
I have eaten - present perfect tense
i have written - present perfect tense
i had written - past perfect tense
i had eaten - past perfect tense
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First let us know
three forms of each verb : Infinitive, Gerund and Participle.
Get Infinitive form by putting "to" before the verb like :
to go, to hold, to pay, to ask, to take ....
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Verb
Gerund Participle
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know knowing known
do doing done
pay paying paid
take taking taken
hold holding held
bend bending bent
hear hearing heard
ask asking asked
lose losing lost
go going gone
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Imperative form of the verb :
verb or you verb or
Let's verb.
Examples: do: Do. , Let's do.
, You do.
Present tense:
I/You/They/We verb. example: I do.
He/she/it: knows, does,pays,takes,holds,bends,hears,asks,loses,goes
Past tense:
knew, did, paid, took, held, bent, heard, asked, lost, went
Future tense: Put will before verb.
will know, will do, will pay ....
Present perfect tense: Put have before participle.
have known, have done, have paid, have taken, ....
Past perfect tense: Put had before participle.
had bent, had heard, had asked , .....
Future perfect tense: Put "will have"
before participle.
will have taken, will have done, will have gone, will have
lost,...
Present continuous:
I am / You are/They are/ we are/ he is/she is/ it is
followed by gerund.
I am doing, They are bending, He is paying , ....
Past continuous:
I was/he was/she was/it was/ they were/ you were/ we
were followed by gerund form.
I was doing. She was
bending. They were losing. It was going.
Future continuous:
Put "will be" before gerund.
I will be taking. It will be
losing. She will be going.
Present perfect tense:
I have/you have/they have/it has/she has/he has followed by
participle.
I have done. You have gone. She has
asked.
Past perfect tense:
Put "had" before participle.
I had done. You had gone. She had
heard. They had taken.
Future perfect :
Put "will have" before participle.
I will have done. She
will have heard. They will have taken.
Present perfect continuous:
Put "have been" before gerund.
We have been asking. You have been paying.
They have been losing.
Past perfect continuous:
Put "had been" before gerund.
We had been asking. They had been losing. She had
been paying.
Future perfect continuous:
Put "will have been" before
gerund.
We will have been doing. She will have been losing.
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