1. Understanding verb tense
What are the verb tenses?
Present and present perfect
Past and past perfect
Future and future perfect
By haytham kilani

2. What are the verb tenses?
Verbs do a lot of work in sentences. They show actions and states of being. They even take different forms to show time.
flies
flew
will fly

3. What are the verb tenses?
The tense of a verb indicates the time of the action or state of being expressed by the verb.
Perfect tenses indicate that something happened or existed before a specific point in time.
Past
Present
Future
Past
Future
Present
Past Perfect
Present Perfect
Future Perfect
She will have played in ten concerts by April.
She has played in the band for three years.
Gwen will play in a concert tomorrow.
She had played violin before then.
Gwen plays guitar in a jazz band.
Gwen played last year as well.

4. What are the verb tenses?
The tenses of verbs are formed from the four principal parts of verbs.
Base Form
smile
choose
Present Participle
[is] smil
ing
[is] choos
ing
Past
smile d
cho se
Past Participle
[have] smile d
[have] cho
sen

5. What are the verb tenses?
Each tense has a progressive form, which is used to express continuing action or state of being.
Present progressive
am, are, is talking
Past progressive
was, were talking
Future progressive
will (shall) be talking
Present perfect progressive
has, have been talking
Past perfect progressive
had been talking
Future perfect progressive
will (shall) have been talking

6. What are the verb tenses? Present and present perfect
The present tense expresses an action or a state of being that is occurring now, at the present time.
Today we honor our veterans.
Polly is marching in the parade.
(Progressive form)

7. What are the verb tenses? Present and present perfect
The present perfect tense
expresses an action or a state of being that occurred at an indefinite time in the past
is usually formed using the helping verb have or has plus the past participle
Mike has been in several parades.
He has played the drum in all of them.

8. What are the verb tenses? Present and present perfect
The present perfect tense is also used to express an action or state of being that began in the past and continues into the present. In this case, perfect means complete.
Mr. Lee has taught music at our school since 2004.
(Progressive form)
Yoko has been taking flute lessons for six years.

9. What are the verb tenses? Past and past perfect
The past tense expresses an action or a state of being that occurred in the past but did not continue into the present.
The two friends shared the large swing.
They were swinging for a long time.
(Progressive form)

10. What are the verb tenses? Past and past perfect
The past perfect tense
expresses an action or a state of being that ended before another past action or state of being occurred
is usually formed using had plus the past participle
After Maria had gone home, Kim was bored.
She asked her dad about the time that he had been a lifeguard at the beach.

11. What are the verb tenses? Future and future perfect
The future tense
expresses an action or a state of being that will occur
is usually formed using will or shall plus the base form
My family will ride the train to Chicago.
We will be arriving at five o’clock.
(Progressive form)

12. What are the verb tenses? Future and future perfect
The future perfect tense
expresses an action or a state of being that will end before another future action or state of being
is usually formed using will have or shall have plus the past participle
By the time you receive this letter, she will have returned home.
After this trip, he will have been to Chicago three times.

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