Verb Tense Review

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Verb Tense Review

• This is lots of fun!

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Simple Present

• The sun rises in the east sets in the west.
• Facts
• I give lots of homework.
• Habitual actions
• The plane arrives at 600 tonight.
• Future actions, especially scheduled ones
• Youll be happy when you finish ESL courses.
• Time clauses

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Simple Present

• Verbs of state Non-progressive verbs
• Describe states, not actions
• Seldom used in progressive tenses
• Examples know, believe, doubt, appear, seem,
  fear, dislike, belong, own, possess, hear, sound,
  agree, promise, amaze, need, want, wish,
  remember, understand, etc.

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Present Progressive

• Formation Be in present present participle
• Uses Youre reading this example.Were
  studying essay writing this semester.
• Action happening in the moment
• Jim is always coming in late.
• Repeated action creating a problem
• Im going home at 100 today.
• Future action

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Different Meanings

• Simple Present

• Present progressive

• Im thinking of giving a test.
• Shes appearing in a play.
• Were having fun today.
• Hes tasting the soup.
• Hes smelling the roses.
• Hes being silly today.

• I think youre smart.
• She appears to be sick.
• I have 35 students.
• This tastes good.
• That smells awful.
• He is very smart.

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Present Perfect

• Formation Have in simple present past
  participle
• Uses I have taught here since 2002.
• Action begun in the past that continues in the
  present
• I have seen that movie.
• Past action, unspecified time
• We have eaten there many times.
• Repeated past action, unspecified time
• Have you ever been to Paris?
• Experience that did/didnt happen
• N.B. Were you in Paris last year?

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Present Perfect Progressive

• Formation Be in present perfect present
  participle
• Uses She has been teaching for 40 years!
• Action in progress at the present moment,
  emphasis on the duration of the action
• I have been thinking about moving to Iowa.
• Activity in progress recently, lately

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Future Will

• Prediction
• It will rain tomorrow.
• Decision of the moment
• I need help. Ill help you!
• Will not/wont Refusal
• The car wont start. He will not help his
  brother.
• Promise
• I will write as soon as I arrive.

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Future Be going to

• Prediction
• It is going to rain tomorrow.
• Plan
• Im going to Iowa this weekend.

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Future Progressive

• Formation Be in future Present participle
• Uses
• When you are sleeping tonight, I will be
  correcting essays.
• When you are asleep tonight, I am going to be
  correcting essays.
• Action in progress at some future time

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Future Perfect

• Formation Have in the future past participle
• Uses I will have checked your sentences before
  you come to class on Tuesday.
• Action to be completed in the future before some
  future time or event

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Future Perfect Progressive

• Formation Be in future perfect present
  participle
• Uses He will have been working here for 45
  years when he retires next year.
• Action in progress at some point in the future,
  emphasis on duration of the action in progress

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Simple Past

• Formation Add ed to base form Lots of
  irregular verbs
• Uses I watched that movie last night.He bought
  a new car last week.That student was late for
  class.
• Action begun and completed at a specific time
  in the past

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Past Progressive

• Formation Be in simple past present
  participle
• Uses He was talking when the phone rang.
• Action happening in the past, interrupted by
  another
• He was working at the time of the murder.
• Action happening at a past moment
• N.B.When the fire alarm sounded, they left the
  building.They were taking a test when the fire
  alarm sounded.

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Past Perfect

• Formation Have in simple past past
  participle
• Uses Class had started by the time the last
  student arrived.
• Past action completed before another past action
• They had been married ten years when their first
  baby was born.
• Action completed before a past point in time

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Past Perfect Progressive

• Formation Be in past perfect present
  participle.
• Uses They had been working for three hours when
  the storm struck.
• Past action in progress when another past action
  happens, emphasis on duration of first action