The document discusses the different English verb tenses including: - Simple present tense, used for habits and opinions - Present continuous tense, used for ongoing or temporary actions - Present perfect tense, used for actions that began in the past and continue to the present - Present perfect continuous tense, used for ongoing actions that began in the past Examples and rules are provided for forming and using each tense. Links to online exercises for practicing each tense are also included.

1. Created By:Dilmi Shanika

2. simple present tense
Present continuous tense
Present perfect tense
Present perfect continuous
tense

3.  Simple present tense
 Present continuous tense
 Present perfect tense
 Present perfect continuous tense
 Simple past tense
 Past continuous tense
 Past perfect tense
 Past perfect continuous tense
 Simple future tense
 Future continuous tense
 Future perfect tense
 Future perfect continuous tense

4.  We use the present simple:
To talk about feelings and opinions
 She loves football
 I like pop music
To talk about thoughts
 I don’t think she likes her new job
To talk about natural incidents
 The sun rises in the east

5.  To talk about a present habit
 Present simple can be used with frequency
adverbs like
 Always
 Never
 Sometimes
 Ever
 Usually
 Often
 Fortnightly
 Regularly

6.  I
 WE WORK
 YOU
 THEY
 HE
 SHE WORKS
 IT

7.  Add –s for most verbs
 Work-works
 Buy-buys
 Add –es for verbs that end in –ch,-ss,-sh,-x
 -o,-z
 Watch-watches
 Go-goes
 Coo-coos

8.  Change the –y to –i and add –es when the
base form ends in consonant +y
 Study-studies
 Dry-dries
 Do not change –y when the base form ends
in a vowel+y…….add –s
 Play-plays
 Enjoy-enjoys

9. The present continuous tense is used
to express:
Momentary actions
what is happening now or around the time of
speaking
A momentary action can be understood by
Seeing
Hearing
Feeling
Ex:she is coming
It is aching

10. Constant habits
To show habit that is constantly or
always seen
ex: he is always working
She is always grumbling
Near future(decided future)
With a future meaning to show what
you have always arranged to do

11.  I am coming
 WE
 YOU are coming
 THEY
 HE
 SHE is coming
 IT

12.  The present continuous is normally used with
words such as:
Now
Right now
Just now
At the moment
At the present moment
presently

13.  Some verbs are used only in simple tenses…
 Ex:you cannot say “I am knowing”
 There are some verbs that cant see in
continuous form
want like belong know suppose need love
see release mean prefer have hear
believe understand remember forget
seem notice appreciate have(possess)
Think(believe)

14.  When a verb ends in a single “e” it is dropped before adding
“ing”
Ex:Waste-wasting
 This does not happen when a verb ends in
“ee”, “oe”, “ye”, “ge”
Ex:See-seeing
Dye-dyeing
 When verbs of two or more syllables whose last syllable
contains only one vowel and ends in a single consonant we
have to double this consonant if the stress falls on the last
syllable
Ex: Run-running
Cut-cutting

15.  We use the present perfect to talk about things that
happened at an indefinite time in past.you can use the
present perfect when you don’t know when
something happened or when the specific time is not
important. now
has been
 Past
future
 When we use present perfect,there is a connection
with the present.
Ex: I’ve lost my key(I haven’t got it now)
I’ve forgotten her name(I can’t remember it now)

16.  We often use the present perfect to give new
information or to announce a recent
happening
 Ex:do you know about Dilrukshi ?she has
gone to Japan.

17.  You can use the present perfect with “just”
(a short time ago)
Ex:no thanks.i’ve just had lunch
 You can use present perfect with “already” to
say that something has happened sooner
than expected.
Ex: when is seetha going to start
her new job?she has already
started.

18.  Use the present perfect with ‘since’ or ‘for’ to
talk about something than began in the past and
continued to the present.(and may continue into
the future)
 Use the present perfect with since+point in time to show
when something is started.
 Since can also introduce a time clause
 If the action ended in the past ,use the past
simple in the time clause.
 If the action still continuous in the
present,use the present perfect in the time
clause

19.  use the present perfect with „for‟+length of
time to show how long a present situation
has lasted.
Ex:He has lived in london for six years
 We often use “ever” and “never” in present
perfect.
ex:Have you ever eaten cuttle fish?
I have never smoked a cigarrete.

20.  We use present perfect after a superlative
Ex:you are the prettiest girl i’vE
ever met in my life
 we have to use the present perfect with
“this is the first time……..”
 Ex:This is the first time I have faced
such a problem

21.  We use the present perfect when we talk
about a period of time that continuous up to
the present or something that has happened
several times up to the present.
Ex:I havEn’t seen him recently.have
you?
 we often use the present perfect with “yet”
shows that the speaker is expecting
something to happen.
Ex:hasn’t it stopped raining yet?

22.  We use present perfect with this
morning,this evening,today,this
week,this term ,etc…if the period
indicated by these times are nor over at the
time of speaking
Ex:I have drunk four bottles of
coca cola today.
 We use present perfect with ‘been’ to show
continuous actions
Ex:We have been angry with each

23.  I have gone
 WE
 YOU have gone
 THEY
 HE
 SHE has gone
 IT
Have/has
+past
participle

24.  We use present perfect continuous for an
action or situation that began in the past and
continuous until now.
now
Past f
uture
have been+ing

25.  We can use the present perfect continuous
for repeated actions up to now.they can be
actions that are done many times in a period
of time from the past and until now.
 I have been having driving lessons for a couple of months.
 I have been going to evening classes in french.

26.  We can also use it to talk about an action
which has just stopped and has a present
result.
Ex :it has bEEn raining.that’s why
the ground is wet.
 We can use present perfect continuous
with for ,since,how
long, recently, lately…..
 Ex :I have been attending this class

27.  I have been working
 WE
 YOU have been working
 THEY
 HE
 SHE has been working
 IT

28.  http://www.englisch-
hilfen.de/en/exercises/questions/simple_pres
ent2.htm
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20Tense%20Exercise%204.htm
 http://www.englishexercises.org/buscador/bu
scar.asp?nivel=any&age=0&contents=presen
t+simple
 http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/65.htm
l

29.  http://www.englishexercises.org/buscador/buscar.asp
?nivel=any&age=0&tipo=any&contents=present+cont
inuous
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continuous-exercise-1.html
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hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_present_progres
sive.htm

30.  http://www.englishexercises.org/buscador/bu
scar.asp?nivel=any&age=0&tipo=any&conten
ts=present+perfect
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perfect-exercises.html

31.  http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs
7.htm
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simple-continuous/