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There are three Main tenses The Present The Past The Future EACH TENSE HAS FOUR FORMS SIMPLE: Present, Past, Future CONTINUOUS: Present, Past, Future PERFECT: Present, Past, Future PERFECT CONTINUOUS: Present, Past, Future
SIMPLE PAST PAST FORM OF VERB IS CALLED SIMPLE PAST PAST TENSE PRESENT TENSE FUTURE TENSE SIMPLE PRESENT SIMPLE FUTURE
CONTINUOS TENSE PAST TENSE PRESENT TENSE FUTURE TENSE
PAST PERFECT TENSE PAST TENSE PRESENT TENSE FUTURE TENSE SIMPLE PAST
PAST PERFECT TENSE PAST TENSE PRESENT TENSE FUTURE TENSE SIMPLE PAST
FUTURE PERFECT TENSE PAST TENSE PRESENT TENSE FUTURE TENSE
Simple Present I play. Simple Past I played. Simple Future I will play. Present Continuous I am playing. Past Continuous I was playing. Future Continuous I will be playing. Present Perfect I have played. Past Perfect I had played. Future Perfect I will have played. Present Perfect Continuous I have been playing for two hours . Past Perfect Continuous I had been playing when you came. Future Perfect Continuous I will have been playing for two hours at 2 o’clock.
COMMON MISTAKES IN TENSES 1.It is raining since yesterday . X It has been raining since yesterday. 2 . I reached the station before the train had arrived . X I had reached the station before the train arrived. 3. Yesterday we had seen the panther . X Yesterday we saw the panther. 4. I had been playing a match. I had been playing a match yesterday, so couldn’t go out with my friends.