Content:

Present Simple – p.3-10

Present Continuous  – p.11-16

Present Perfect – p.17-23

Past Simple – p.24-29

Past Continuous – p.30-33

Past Perfect – p.34-38

Present Simple

The simple present tense is one of several forms of present tense in English. It is used to describe habits, unchanging situations, general truths, and fixed arrangements. The simple present tense is simple to form. Just use the base form of the verb: (I take, you take, we take, they take) The 3rd person singular takes an -s at the end. (he takes, she takes)

Examples:

He goes to school every morning.

She understands English.

It mixes the sand and the water.

He tries very hard.

She enjoys playing the piano.

The simple present tense is used:

• To express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and wishes:I smoke (habit); I work in London (unchanging situation); London is a large city (general truth)

• To give instructions or directions:You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.

• To express fixed arrangements, present or future:Your exam starts at 09.00

• To express future time, after some conjunctions: after, when, before, as soon as, until:
  He’ll give it to you when you come next Saturday.

Present Continuous

As with all tenses in English, the speaker’s attitude is as important as the time of the action or event. When someone uses the present continuous, they are thinking about something that is unfinished or incomplete

The present continuous is used:

• to describe an action that is going on at this moment: You are using the Internet. You are studying English grammar.
• to describe an action that is going on during this period of time or a trend: Are you still working for the same company? More and more people are becoming vegetarian.
• to describe an action or event in the future, which has already been planned or prepared: We’re going on holiday tomorrow. I’m meeting my boyfriend tonight. Are they visiting you next winter?
• to describe a temporary event or situation: He usually plays the drums, but he’s playing bass guitar tonight. The weather forecast was good, but it’s raining at the moment.
• with “always, forever, constantly”, to describe and emphasise a continuing series of repeated actions: Harry and Sally are always arguing! You’re constantly complaining about your mother-in-law!

         Verbs that are not usually used in the continuous form

• The verbs in the list below are normally used in the simple form because they refer to states, rather than actions or processes.

Exceptions:

Perception verbs (see, hear, feel, taste, smell) are often used with can: I can see… These verbs may be used in the continuous form but with a different meaning

• This coat feels nice and warm. (your perception of the coat’s qualities)
• John’s feeling much better now (his health is improving)
• She has three dogs and a cat. (possession)
• She’s having supper. (She’s eating)
• I can see Anthony in the garden (perception)
• I’m seeing Anthony later (We are planning to meet)

Present Perfect

Definition of the present perfect tense

The present perfect is used to indicate a link between the present and the past. The time of the action is before now but not specified, and we are often more interested in the result than in the action itself.

BE CAREFUL! There may be a verb tense in your language with a similar form, but the meaning is probably NOT the same.

When the precise time of the action is not important or not known

• Someone has eaten my soup!
• Have you seen ‘Gone with the Wind’?
• She’s studied Japanese, Russian, and English.

The Present Perfect is used to describe

• An action or situation that started in the past and continues in the present. I have lived in Bristol since 1984 (= and I still do.)
• An action performed during a period that has not yet finished. She has been to the cinema twice this week (= and the week isn’t over yet.)
• A repeated action in an unspecified period between the past and now. We have visited Portugal several times.
• An action that was completed in the very recent past, expressed by ‘just’. I have just finished my work.
• An action when the time is not important. He has read ‘War and Peace’. (= the result of his reading is important)

Note: When we want to give or ask details about when, where, who, we use the simple past.

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Past Simple

Definition of the simple past tense

The simple past tense, sometimes called the preterite, is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now. The simple past is the basic form of past tense in English. The time of the action can be in the recent past or the distant past and action duration is not important.

You always use the simple past when you say when something happened, so it is associated with certain past time expressions

• frequency: often, sometimes, always
  I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.
  I often brought my lunch to school.
• a definite point in time: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago
  We saw a good film last week.
  Yesterday, I arrived in Geneva.
  She finished her work atseven o’clock
  I went to the theatre last night
• an indefinite point in time: the other day, ages ago, a long time ago
  People lived in caves a long time ago.
  She played the piano when she was a child.

Note: the word ago is a useful way of expressing the distance into the past. It is placed after the period of time: a week ago, three years ago, a minute ago.

Simple past, irregular verbs

Some verbs are irregular in the simple past. Here are the most common ones.

to go

• He went to a club last night.
• Did he go to the cinema last night?
• He didn’t go to bed early last night.

to give

• We gave her a doll for her birthday.
• They didn’t give John their new address.
• Did Barry give you my passport?

to come

• My parents came to visit me last July.
• We didn’t come because it was raining.
• Did he come to your party last week?

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Past Continuous

Functions of the Past continuous

The past continuous describes actions or events in a time before now, which began in the past and were still going on when another event occurred.

It is used:

• Often, to describe the background in a story written in the past tense, e.g. “The sun was shining and the birds were singing as the elephant came out of the jungle. The other animals were relaxing in the shade of the trees, but the elephant moved very quickly. She was looking for her baby, and she didn’t notice the hunter who was watching her through his binoculars. When the shot rang out, she was running towards the river…”
• to describe an unfinished action that was interrupted by another event or action, e.g. “I was having a beautiful dream when the alarm clock rang.”
• to express a change of mind: e.g. “I was going to spend the day at the beach but I’ve decided to get my homework done instead.”
• with ‘wonder’, to make a very polite request: e.g. “I was wondering if you could baby-sit for me tonight.”

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Past Perfect

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