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Tenses

Tenses. Simple. Perfect. Continuous. Perfect Continuous. Simple.

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Tenses

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  1. Tenses Simple Perfect Continuous Perfect Continuous

  2. Simple

  3. Continuous 1. The Present Continuous tense is usually used to express continuing, ongoing actions which are taking place at the moment of speaking or writing. 2. The Present Continuous tense is also often used to express temporary situations.

  4. Perfect This tense indicates that an action was completed (finished or "perfected") at some point in the past. We use the Present Perfect tense with time references that refer to the time up to now. For example: today, this week, this month, ever, never, already, recently, yet etc.

  5. Perfect Continuous ***The Past Perfect emphasizes completion (or the result of a completed action) while the Past Perfect Continuous emphasizes the duration or activity of an action. Example : By the time we arrived, he had left the house. By the time we arrived, he had been playing poker for 2 hours.

  6. Present Perfect Continuous 1. There is a connection with the present and (now). E.g., You don’t understand (now) because you haven’t been listening. She has been reading for hours. = started 2 hours ago and still reading. Past Perfect Continuous 1. We use it to say what had been happening before something else happened. E.g., It had been snowing for a while before we left. We had been playing tennis for only a few minutes when it started raining. He was out of breath when he arrived because he had been running. 2. We use it when reporting things said in the past. E.g., She said she had been trying to call me all day. They said they had been shopping. I told you I had been looking for some new clothes.

  7. Active & passive voice

  8. Examples 1. The girls ate the pizza. (active) The pizza was eaten by the girls. (passive) 2. I cleaned the house, I fed the fish, and then I broke the expensive vase. The house was cleaned, the fish were fed, and then the expensive vase was broken. (passive) 3. Someone stole my car yesterday. (active) My car was stolen yesterday. (passive) 4. Someone kidnapped her. (active) She was kidnapped. (passive) Incidents of tragedy, accident or violence

  9. THE ENDTHANK YOU

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