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1. English Item 07-10
Source: Online Writing Lab
Active Tenses
Simple Present
• Present Action or Condition
• I hear you.
• Here comes the bus.
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2. English Item 07-10
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Active Tenses
Simple Present
• General Truths
• There are thirty days in September.
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3. English Item 07-10
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Active Tenses
Simple Present
• Non-action; Habitual Action
• I like music.
• I run on Tuesdays and Sundays.
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4. English Item 07-10
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Active Tenses
Simple Present
• Future Time
• The train leaves at 4:00 p.m.
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5. English Item 07-10
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Active Tenses
Present Progressive
• Activity in Progress
• I am playing soccer now.
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6. English Item 07-10
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Active Tenses
Present Progressive
• Verbs of Perception
• He is feeling sad.
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7. English Item 07-10
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Active Tenses
Simple Past
• Completed Action
• We visited the museum yesterday.
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8. English Item 07-10
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Active Tenses
Simple Past
• Completed Condition
• The weather was rainy last week.
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9. English Item 07-10
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Active Tenses
Past Progressive
• Past Action that took place over a period of
time
• They were climbing for twenty-seven days.
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10. English Item 07-10
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Active Tenses
Past Progressive
• Past Action interrupted by another
• We were eating dinner when she told me.
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11. English Item 07-10
Source: Online Writing Lab
Active Tenses
Future
• With will/won't -- Activity or event that will
or won't exist or happen in the future
• I'll
get up late tomorrow.
• I won't get up early.
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12. English Item 07-10
Source: Online Writing Lab
Active Tenses
Future
• With going to -- future in relation to
circumstances in the present
I'm hungry.
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• I'm going to get something to eat.
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13. English Item 07-10
Source: Online Writing Lab
Active Tenses
Present Perfect
• With verbs of state that begin in the past
and lead up to and include the present
He has lived here for many years.
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14. English Item 07-10
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Active Tenses
Present Perfect
• To express habitual or continued action
He has worn glasses all his life.
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15. English Item 07-10
Source: Online Writing Lab
Active Tenses
Present Perfect
• With events occurring at an indefinite or
unspecified time in the past -- with ever,
never, before
Have you ever been to Tokyo before?
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16. English Item 07-10
Source: Online Writing Lab
Active Tenses
Present Perfect Progressive
• To express duration of an action that
began in the past, has continued into the
present, and may continue into the future
David has been working for two hours, and
•
he hasn't finished yet.
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17. English Item 07-10
Source: Online Writing Lab
Active Tenses
Past Perfect
• to describe a past event or condition
completed before another event in the past
When I arrived home, he had already called.
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18. English Item 07-10
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Active Tenses
Past Perfect
• In reported speech
Jane said that she had gone to the movies.
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19. English Item 07-10
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Active Tenses
Future perfect
• to express action that will be completed by
or before a specified time in the future
By next month we will have finished this job.
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• He won't have finished his work until 2:00.
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20. English Item 07-10
Source: Online Writing Lab
Active Tenses
should be “had been
standing” since the action
had been done in the past
with a referent past action,
“was attacked”
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