This document discusses tenses in the English language. It begins by defining the present indefinite tense and providing an example sentence structure. It then outlines some rules for adding "s" or "es" to verbs in the third person singular present tense. Examples are given of positive and negative sentences using the present tense. The different verb conjugations for regular and irregular verbs in the present tense are explained. Identification and fill-in-the-blank exercises are provided to practice using correct tenses.

1. Cambrian College
First Digital Campus in Bangladesh

2. Md. Abdur Razzak Sarker
Associate Professor
Department of English
Cambrian College Dhaka.

4. Tense denotes the time of
the action indicated by a
verb. The time is not always
the same as that indicated
by the name of the tense.

5. Objectives
By the end of the lesson you will be able :
• to identify different tenses.
• to know the kinds of tenses
• to know structures of sentences in different tenses.

7.  †h Tense Øviv wPišÍb mZ¨, Af¨vmMZ mZ¨
A_ev mPivPi NUbv eY©bv Kiv nq Zv‡K
Present Indefinite Tense e‡j| h_v: He goes to
school.
 Structure: Subject + Present form of Verb +
Object + evKx Ask
 The boy eats rice.

8.  s/es †hvM Kivi wbqg
 hw` ev‡K¨i Subject wU He, She, It, BZ¨vw` Third Person
Singular Number nq Zvn‡j Verb Gi mv‡_ wb‡gœi †ÿθ‡jv‡Z
s/es hy³ Ki‡Z n‡e|
 1. hw` Verb Gi †k‡l Ch _v‡K †hgb: catch-catches,
 2. hw` Verb Gi †k‡l Sh _v‡K †hgb: punish-punishes,
 3. hw` Verb Gi †k‡l GKUv gvÎ O _v‡K †hgb: Go-goes, veto-
vetoes
 4. hw` Verb Gi †k‡l SS _v‡K †hgb: miss-misses
 5. hw` Verb Gi †k‡l Z _v‡K †hgb: buzz-buzzes
 6. hw` Verb Gi †k‡l X _v‡K †hgb: mix-mixes

10.  Positive
 Negative
(doesn’t + verb)
Bill lives in the USA.
He likes football a lot.
He doesn’t like cooking.
Tom doesn’t live in Italy.
NOT: doesn’t lives
She reads a lot of books.
Rita works with children.
She doesn’t read books.
Ana doesn’t use a computer.
NOT: doesn’t uses

11. Most verbs: add ‘s’
Work ---- works live ---- lives

12. Verbs ending in - ch, - sh or - o:
add - es
watch ---- watches go ---- goes

13. Verbs that end in - y: Instead of y
‘ies’
study ---- studies go ---- goes

14. Answer the following question.
(a) Can you differentiate present simple and simple
past tense?
True or false. If false, give the correct answer.
(a) Tenses play insignificant role in English language.
True/false.

15. Identify the tenses of the following sentences.

16. The above
sentence is in
simple past
tense.

17. Now try to fill in the blanks with verbs of correct tenses
discussing in groups from the hands out.

18. Write a
paragraph in
about 100 —
120 words
about
Environment
Pollution
using the
correct
tenses.

19. All the best.
thAnk you.

20. Thank you.