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Verb Tenses

Verb Tenses. Forms of Verb Tenses. Uses of Verb Tenses. Use correct tenses according to the context. Be sure about the meaning you would like to express first. E.g. Did you go to China? (Context?) Have you been to China? (Context?). Uses of Verb Tenses.

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Verb Tenses

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  1. Verb Tenses Created by Janet Chan & Yang Ying

  2. Forms of Verb Tenses

  3. Uses of Verb Tenses • Use correct tenses according to the context. Be sure about the meaning you would like to express first. E.g. Did you go to China? (Context?) Have you been to China? (Context?)

  4. Uses of Verb Tenses • Use different verb tenses for different meanings but be consistent E.g. The Singapore culture is a diverse one. Yet, the people in Singapore live in harmony despite the diversity.

  5. Uses of Verb Tenses • Use tense shifts only when there is a need to do so. Think about meaning before you decide to make a tense shift. e.g. The assignment workload for FOE students at NUS is extremely heavy. I still remember in the first semester I was here, I had to cope with three projects at the same time.

  6. Simple Present now

  7. Simple Present now Formation 1. Base form of the verb. 2. Add -s or -es for third person singular.

  8. now Present Progressive

  9. Present Progressive Formation am/ is/ are + present participle (-ing). I amwriting an academic essay for this module. They aredoing some research on nanotechnology. He ispreparing the lab set up for the next class.

  10. Verbs not usually used in progressive tense We usually use the following verbs with simple tenses only (not progressive tenses): hate, like, love, need, prefer, want, wish believe, imagine, know, mean, realize, recognize, remember, suppose, understand belong, concern, consist, contain, depend, involve, matter, need, owe, own, possess appear, arrive, resemble, seem, hear, see

  11. Simple Past now Formation: Regular verbs: base form + d/-ed

  12. Past Progressive now Formation was/ were + present participle (-ing)

  13. Present Perfect now

  14. Present Perfect now Formation: has/ have + past participle

  15. Past Perfect now Formation: had + past participle

  16. Past Perfect Progressive now Formation: had + been + present participle (-ing)

  17. Future now • Formation: • will + base form (no -s or -es) • Note: • Future time can also be expressed in • am/is/are + going to + base form • simple progressive or present progressive See Lane and Lange (1999) p. 14 for examples.

  18. Future Progressive now Formation: will + be + present participle

  19. Future Perfect now Formation: will + have + past participle

  20. Future Perfect Progressive now Formation: will + have + present participle

  21. Practice (1) “I am writing these words in English because I am needing the practice. (2) At this moment I have been on an airplane over the Pacific ocean, en route to a year of study at New York University in the United States. I am looking forward to being there, but I am also a little afraid. (3) What will I find when I will get to America? Will the Americans be arrogant and violent? (4) Would I make friends? (5) Am I happy?”

  22. (6) These had been the words I had written in my diary on the airplane last month. (7) When I arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport, I used to be timid and nervous. (8)I have heard a lot about crime before I left Japan, (9) so I am very scared when I arrived. (10) People in Japan had also told me that Americans will be rude, unfriendly, and unhelpful. For this reason, (11) I was very surprised when the taxi driver from the airport would carry my luggage and spoke kindly and slowly to me. (12) He even asked if there was anything else he can do. (13) And when I had been arriving at the college, everyone seemed concerned about me. I found that the majority of people here are friendly and are going out of their way to help you if you need it.

  23. (14) On television, the news programs speak a lot about bad events like accidents, murders, diseases, and fights. But I don’t see as much violence in my life as I do on television. (15) I had not been mugged, and I don’t worry all the time about my safety.

  24. (16) Two of the ideas I would have about the United States, however, seem to be true. One is that Americans don’t seem to pay much attention to rules. One of my best American friends says, in fact, “Rules are made to be broken.” The other idea I had that seems to be true is about the American family. In Japan, the family is very important, but some (17) Japanese people are thinking that the family (18) is meaning nothing in the United States. Anyway, I am going to have a chance to see a real American family. (19) I will have been going with my roommate, Susan, to spend Thanksgiving break with her family in Pennsylvania. (20)When I see her family, I will have understood more!

  25. E-Learning http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses.htm http://esl.about.com/od/grammarstructures/ig/Tenses-Chart/?once=true& http://esl.about.com/od/englishgrammar/a/tense_resource.htm http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/tenses/tense_frames.htm

  26. Sources English Club. (1997-2010). Verbs not Used with Continuous Tenses. Retrieved March 8, 2010 from http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-m_vmwct_1.htm Lane, A. and Lange, E. (1999). Writing Clearly: An Editing Guide (2nd ed.). USA: Heinle and Heinle Publishers. Oshima, A. and Hogue, A. (2006). Writing Academic English (pp3-15) (4th ed.). New York: Pearson Education, 3-25. Raimes, A. (2006). Grammar troublespots: A guide for student writers (3rd ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press, 41-45. Hanson, G. (2006). The English verb tense system: a dynamic presentation using the Cuisenaire Rods. Une Education Pour Demain. Retrieved Feb 25, 2010 from http://assoc.pagespro-orange.fr/une.education.pour.demain/articlesrrr/sw/vts.htm Jay Maurer. (1995). Focus on grammar: An advanced course for reference and practice (p15). Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc

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