Simple Tense for High School

1. Grammar Made Easy
Tenses for You
M. Bincy Dona Mary

2. Tenses - Basics
To learn tenses, one should be aware of I, II and III person pronouns and
their classification
Person Type Pronoun Singular / Plural
I Person I Singular
We Plural
II Person You Stands as Singular as well as
Plural
III Person He/She/It Singular
They Plural

3. Noun (Examples) Pronoun
I I
James
(substitute any other name) & I
We
You You
James (substitute any other
name)
He
Jesintha(substitute any other
name)
She
Cow (Any living being except
humans and all objects) It
James and Victor (substitute
any other names)
They

4. Verbs
Lets have a look at the verbs
The two types of verbs in tenses
Main Verb – that which denotes an action
Auxiliary Verb - helps the main verb
Pronoun S.Present S.Past S.Future
I do+ main verb did+main verb will/ shall +main verb
We do+ main verb did+main verb will/ shall +main verb
You do+ main verb did+main verb will/ shall +main verb
He/She/It does + main verb did+main verb will/ shall +main verb
They do+ main verb did+main verb will/ shall +main verb