Topic - Tense Three types of Tenses ✅𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 ✔Simple Past Tense ✔Past Continious Tense ✔Past Perfect Tense ✔Past Perfect Continious Tense ✅𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 ✔Simple Present/Present Indefinite Tense ✔Present Continious Tense ✔Present Perfect Tense ✔Present Perfect Continuous Tense ✅𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 ✔Simple Future/Future Indefinite Tense ✔Future Continious Tense ✔Future Perfect Tense ✔Future Perfect Continuous Tense With Examples -Bidisha Paul

1. TENSE
prepared by Bidisha Paul

2. What is Tense?
EXAMPLE
• I go to school.
• I am going to school.
• I will go to school.
• I am going to school.
• I was going to school.
• I will be going to school.
• I have gone to school.
• I had gone to school.
• I will have gone to school.
• I have been going to school.
• I had been going to school.
• I will have been going to school.
DEFINITION
In grammar, a verbal
category relating the
time of a narrated
event to the time of the
speech event is called
Tense.

3. The three types of Tenses

4. Past Tense
EXAMPLE
• She placed a table on the book.
• She went to the movie with Tom.
• He did not come to school on
Monday.
• He removed the picture from the
wall.
DEFINITION
The past tense is a
grammatical tense
whose function is to
place an action or
situation in the past.

5. PresentTense
EXAMPLE
• The Sun rises in the east and sets in
the west.
• John drinks milk every day.
• She loves to eat apple.
DEFINITION
The present tense is a
grammatical tense whose
principal function is to locate
a situation or event in the
present time, any universal
truth, or any hobby.

6. Future Tense
EXAMPLE
• I will go to Thailand.
• I shall play football tomorrow.
• You will speak English.
• We will visit Paris.
DEFINITION
A future tense is a verb
form that generally marks
the event described by the
verb as not happened yet,
but expected to happen in
the future.

8. Simple Present/Present Indefinite Tense
EXAMPLE
• The Sun rises in the East.
• John’s hobby is cycling.
• She loves to eat apple.
DEFINITION
We use the simple present
tense when an action is
happening right now, when
it happens regularly, any
universal truth, or any
hobby.

9. Present Continuous
EXAMPLE
• I am playing football now.
• She is talking with her friend at
present.
• Jack is painting now.
• She is dancing now.
DEFINITION
The present continuous, also
called the present
progressive or present
imperfect, is a verb form
used in modern English that
combines the present tense
with the continuous aspect.

10. Present Perfect
EXAMPLE
• I have tried Sushi.
• He has completed the mission.
• Harry has brushed his teeth.
• They have completed their homew
DEFINITION
The present perfect is a
grammatical combination of
the present tense and perfect
aspect that is used to express
a past event that has present
consequences.

11. Present Perfect Continuous
EXAMPLE
(Has is used for singular subject. Have is used
for plural subject.)
• I have been reading.
• You have been studying.
• She has been dancing.
• He has been playing.
(The Past Perfect Continuous
generally has since or for)
DEFINITION
The present perfect
continuous tense (also
known as the present perfect
progressive tense) shows
that something started in the
past and is continuing at the
present time.

12. Past Indefinite/Simple Past
EXAMPLE
• He did his homework.
• My grandmother told me a story
yesterday.
• I gifted my sister a cute baby doll.
• My mother cleaned the house last
day.
DEFINITION
The simple past, past simple
or past indefinite is the basic
form of the past tense in
Modern English. It is used
principally to describe events
in the past, although it also
has some other uses.

13. Past Continuous
EXAMPLE
• He was writing when his friend
called him.
• She was reading a story book.
• He was sleeping when they arrived.
• They were gossiping among
themselves.
DEFINITION
Past continuous
tense refers/denotes to
those actions/events that
were happening for a
particular time in the
past.

14. Past Perfect
EXAMPLE
• He had gone when I had come
into the house.
• He had not went to the cinema.
• She had not finished the test.
• I noticed that he had left his
notebook behind.
DEFINITION
The pluperfect, usually called
past perfect in English, is a
type of verb form, generally
treated as a grammatical tense
in certain languages, relating
to an action that occurred
prior to an aforementioned
time in the past.

15. Past Perfect Continuous
EXAMPLE
(The Past Perfect Continuous generally has since or for)
• You had been working.
• I had been studying.
• He had been playing Football.
• She had been crying since the morning.
DEFINITION
The past perfect continuous
tense (also known as the past
perfect progressive
tense) shows that an action
that started in the past
continued up until another
time in the past.

16. Future Indefinite/Simple Future
EXAMPLE
• He will do this later.
• This will hurt you a little.
• They will win the match today.
• Henrietta will make food for eve
DEFINITION
This tense is used to
express an action that
will occur in the
future.

17. Future Continuous
EXAMPLE
• I will be buying new clothes.
• He will be swimming in the pool.
• They will be buying a new phone.
• We shall be doing this work.
DEFINITION
The future continuous
refers to an unfinished
action or event that will
be in progress at a time
later than now.

18. Future Perfect
EXAMPLE
• He will have done this by this
evening.
• Boys will have played tennis by
then.
• Bob will have eaten all the cookies.
• She will have bought all the
equipment.
DEFINITION
The future perfect is a
verb form or
construction used to
describe an event that is
expected or planned to
happen before a time of
reference in the future.

19. Future Perfect Continuous
EXAMPLE
• She will have been shopping for the whole day.
• She will have been removing dust from the
backyard tomorrow.
• We will have been conducting a surprise test
today.
• I will have been eating vegetables for three
months.
DEFINITION
Future Perfect Continuous is
used when we are looking
back to the past from a point
in the future and we want to
emphasize the length or
duration of an activity or
event.