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Tenses Vs Modal Auxiliaries. Mohammad Tahir Ali Khan. DEFINITION OF TENSES. A tense is a form of a verb and it indicates the time of an action. GRAMMETICAL STRUCTURE OF TENSES:. PRESENT TENSES. DEFINITION :-
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Tenses Vs Modal Auxiliaries Mohammad Tahir Ali Khan
DEFINITION OF TENSES • A tense is a form of averb and it indicatesthe time of an action
PRESENT TENSES • DEFINITION :- • A verb used to show that an action takes place at present is said to be in the PRESENT TENSES
PRESENT TENSES • PRESENT INDEFINATE • PRESENT CONTINOUS • PRESENT PERFECT • PRESENT PERFECT CONTINOUS
PRESENT INDEFINITE TENSE
USES • Every day activities • Repeated Action • News Paper Headlines • Past Short Stories • Feelings, Thoughts, believes • Habitual Action • Permanent Situation • Present Constant State etc
EVERY DAY ACTIVITIES • EXAMPLES • I take break fast 8 o’clock. • I go to school
REPEATED ACTION • EXAMPLES • We play table tennis every Thursday. • I watch television most weekand.
NEWS PAPER HEADLINES • EXAMPLES • Pakistan win final. • Bomb blast in Abdullah shah ghazi.
PAST SHORT STORIES • EXAMPLES • India attack Pakistan in 1956. • I visit zoo last time in 2005.
FEELINGS, THOUTHGHTS, BELIEVE • EXAMPLES • Mathews love sports. • I hate quiz programs.
HABITUAL ACTION • EXAMPLES • I run slowly. • He walk early in the morning.
PERMANENT SITUATION • EXAMPLES The sun rise in the east. Computer invention is wonder of modern science.
PRESENT CONSTANT STATE etc • EXAMPLES • The flat is clean. • That man is idiot.
PRESENT CONTINOUS • DEFINATION If the verb shows an actionThat is going on in the presentTime then it is a continuoustense
USES • PRESENT UN FINISHED ACTION • PRESENT GOING ON ACTION • MIDDLE OF AN ACTION • DECIDED FUTURE
PRESENT UN FINISHED ACTION • EXAMPLES • I am doing an interior designing course. • Ali doing his air force training.
PRESENT GOING ON ACTION • EXAMPLE • She is writing on the blackboard • We trying to understanding functional english.
MIDDLE OF AN ACTION • EXAMPLES • I am stilled writing my home work.
DECIDED FUTURE • EXAMPLES • I am going university tomorrow. • Ali going America next week.
PRESENT PERFECT TENSE • DEFINATION • If the verb denotes an actionWhich has been completed then itIs a present tense
USES • EXAMPLES • She has broken her bicycle • The flights have not taken off • Has she finished her homework?
PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS • DEFINATION • Present perfect continuous is used for indicate complete action
EXAMPLES • It has been raining for two hours. • Have they been talking since meeting ended? • She has not been working As a designer for 3 years .
PAST • TENSE
PAST TENSE A verb used to show that an action was completed in the past is said to be in the past tense
PAST TENSES • PAST INDEFINATE • PAST CONTINOUS • PAST PERFECT • PAST PERFECT CONTINOUS
PAST INDEFINATE • EXAMPLES • Yesterday I saw santa in my dream • Ram didn’t go to school because he was sick
PAST CONTINOUS • EXAMPLES • I was talking to my friend on telephone the thief stole the jewellery .
PAST PERFECT EXAMPLES • He had got the batch neat kid of the week yesterday . • The train had not left the station before I reached there . • Had the teacher finished writing before the principle came.
PAST PERFECT CONTINOUS • EXAMPLES • This painter had been painting the pictures for last two years . • This singer had not been learning music For last one year . • Had this man is learning weightlifting For last six years.
FUTURE • TENSE
FUTURE TENSE • If the verb expresses an action that will be done in the Future ,then it is a future tense .
FUTURE TENSE • FUTURE INDEFINATE • FUTURE CONTINOUS • FUTURE PERFECT
FUTURE INDEFINATE • EXAMPLES • One day ,I will be the rock star . • We will meet soon . • Will I be on the top of the world .
FUTURE CONTINUOUS • EXAMPLES • Ram will be going to his home . • Mohan will not be reading, he will be playing . • Will teacher be teaching in the class?
FUTURE PREFECT • EXAMPLES • Meow will have eaten the bird . • Sohan will not have finished his homework before mira comes. • Will I have finished my song till 9 o’ clock?
Modal Auxiliaries • Definition of MODAL AUXILIARY • : an auxiliary verb (as can, must, might, may) that is characteristically used with a verb of predication and expresses a modal modification and that in English differs formally from other verbs in lacking -s and - ing forms • First Known Use of MODAL AUXILIARY • circa 1904
CAN Could Be able to May Might Modal Auxiliaries • Must • Should • Have to
CAN Use Examples ability to do something In the present (to be able to) I can speak English. permission to do something In the present (to be allowed to) Can I go to the cinema? Request Can you wait a moment, please? offer Ican lendyou my car tilltomorrow. Suggestion Can we visit Grandma at theweekend? Possibility It can get very hot in Arizona.
COULD Use Examples • ability to do something In the PAST simple I could walk when I was two. • Permission to do something In the Past continues I could be going to the movies when I I was a teenager. • polite questionCould I go to the cinema, please? • polite request Could you wait a moment, please? • polite offer I could lend you my car till tomorrow. • polite suggestion Could we visit Grandma at theweekend? • possibility It could get very hot in Montana.
BE ABLE TO Use Examples • ability to do something In the FUTURE simple I will be able to walk . • Permission to do something I will be able to go cinema for watch movie .
MAY Use Examples • Possibility in the present/future. It may rain today. • To do something in the past (substitute form: to be allowed to) I May havegoing to the cinema • polite suggestion I May have been helping in the past you
MIGHT Possibility It might rain tomorrow in the present/future. (*less possible than MAY) In the past: (not very common) Might I Might have borrow your pen. or I May have been helpingyou
MUST Necessity: must I must go to the supermarket today. Must :(strong obligation to do something) We must talk about it You must have a valid driver’s license. Strong Possibility (95% sure) You’ve been driving for 10 hours. You must be tired.
SHOULD Advice (it’s good – it’s a good idea / not good to do or bad idea) You should exercise. You shouldn’t smoke. Should :( obligation to do something) We should talk about it You should have a valid driver’s license • In past She should not have argued in the last class.