This document provides information about verb tenses and their uses in the English language. It discusses the four main verb tenses - simple, progressive, perfect, and perfect progressive. For each tense, it explains how they are formed and common uses. It also covers aspects like tense, mood, auxiliary verbs, and the differences between dynamic and stative verbs. The focus is on explaining the present tense and its variants: simple present, present progressive, present perfect, and present perfect progressive. Examples are provided to illustrate the different uses of each present tense.

1. Prepared by: Tan, Denise Margarette P.
BEED - 301E
Prof. Barrientos
ENG39-Adviser

2. FREQUENTLY MISPELLED WORDS
Accessable
Accomodate
Aquisition
Auxilary
Boundry
Committment
Concensus
Concience
Conjested
Consise
Desireable
Diaphram
Diptheria
Disasterous
Ecstacy
Embarassment
Epitomy
Farenheit
Flourescent
Fuschia

3. Hierarchial
Idiosyncracy
Knowledgable
Luietenant
Maintainance
Neccesary
Opthamologist
Paraphenalia
Passtime
Playwrite
Pronounciation
Sacreligious
Sympatico
Tempermental
Threshhold
Wierd

4. Tense – the form that a verb
takes to indicate the time of its
action.
Past
Present
Future

5. Four Variants:
• Simple – tenses are more
straightforward.
• Progressive (Continuous) – tenses
are used to describe an action or state
that is in progress at the present time.

6. • Perfect – refer merely to an action or state
that has been completed at the present time.
• Perfect progressive (perfect
continuous)- tenses combine the concepts
of progressive and perfect, referring to an action
or event that is/was/will be in progress at a
particular time.

7. Verb can be formed in four ways
• Base form – The root word
• Past form – formed for regular verb by adding ed to the
base form, or just d if the base form ends in e.
• Present participle – formed by adding ing to the base
form.
• Past participle – the same as the past form for regular
and irregular verbs that more often differs ending in en.

8. Nature of a verb
Dynamic verbs (normal) – involve actions or
processes.
Jump write whisper
Stative verbs (non-continuous)- involve
perceptions or emotions.
Want like believe need think

9. Auxiliary Verb – play a supporting role.
Have will
be can
Mood – of a verb deals with the concept of
whether a statement is expressing a
fact, possibility, command or request.

10. The present tense is a grammatical tense
whose principal function is to locate a situation or
event in present time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_tense

11. Simple present
formed by using just the base form of
the action verb.
• Used to describe habitual
action, circumstances, trait or routine.
I go for an ear candling therapy session every
Wednesday.
We go to church every Sunday.
The queen likes corgis.

12. • used to describe something happening right
now.
The goods are in the market. (right now)
The juice tastes sour. (at this moment)
• use in statements referring to the future.
I’ll pay you as soon as he pays me.
When the timer goes off, please turn the heat
down under the haggis.

13. • used to tell action or state of being in the past
as though it were occurring in the present.
The doctor picks up the key and goes the safe
while masked stranger watches anxiously.

14. Present progressive
formed by combining the simple present of
the auxiliary verb be (I am, you are, etc.) with
the present participle of the action verb.
• Use to refer to an action or event that is occurring
right and has not yet finished.
Sorry, she can’t come to the phone right now – she is
playing her kettle drum.
He is finishing his coffee – he’ll be with you in a sec.

15. • can be use to refer to a scheduled future event.
Their train is leaving in an hour.
It’s not on my calendar, but I’m positive we are
having tea with the duchess next Saturday.
Present perfect
Has + past participle (singular)
Have + past participle (plural)

16. • It indicates continuous time from a vague past to
present. The emphasis is on the present meaning.
They have parted ways.
How my lovely daughter has grown!
• It may indicate continuous action from same past
time to the present. The emphasis is on the length
of time.
I have not seen her for a year now.
These poor kids have not eaten since last night.

17. • It expresses recent events.
The speaker has just arrived.
Have you seen the professor recently?
Present perfect progressive
Formed by combiningthe simple present
of the auxiliary verb have (I have, he
has, etc.), the auxiliary verb been and the
present participle of the action verb.
AV have + AV been + Present participle

18. • use to indicate ongoing action.
I have been watching the pot, and it hasn’t
boiled yet.
My husband has been following the Extreme
Ironing competition all week.

19. Present emphatic
Formed by combining the simple present of the
auxiliary verb do (I, you, are, do, he, she, does) with the
base form of the action verb.
I’m afraid when she doesn’t like me. Nonsense, she does
like you.
I like her voice. Yes, she does sings beautifully.
Why did you bother buying that exercise bike, when you
never use it? I do use it.

20. Sources:
Allam, A.S. Basic grammar to communicate
in english. Rizmarc, 2011. SJDM City.
Stilman, A. Grammatically correct 2nd
edition: revised and updated, the essential
guide to
spelling, style, usage, grammar, and
punctuation. Writer’s digest books, 2010.
Canada.