Cassandra Said:

Is there anyone who can teach me the basics of Tenses in English in a simple way?

We Answered:

English tenses are kind of complicated. What is your first language? It might help me to explain it.

Anyways, verbs in English have to agree with the subject of the sentence. Which is why you practice conjugating verbs when you're learning. That means saying I say, he/she says, it says, we say, they say. (Or whatever the verb is). Most verbs in English change very little or not at all when you conjugate them, which makes this part easy to learn.

A verb with "to" in front of it is the infinitive form. That's the basic form of a verb which doesn't indicate a tense or subject.
"To run" doesn't tell you when or who is doing the running.

But if you say "she runs" it is both present tense and you know the subject. The past tense is formed by adding -ed to most verbs, but English has a very large number of irregular verbs that don't end in -ed in the past. (If you're wanting to be fluent you'll have to memorize them, the best way to do that is to use them frequently. If you're not trying to be fluent or pass a class on English but just want to communicate then -ed will work in most situations and you will be understood. They'll know you're not good at English though).

The future tense is formed by using "will + verb" sometimes will is shortened to 'll in sentences like "I'll write that." That means the action is going to occur in the future. Will is the future tense of the verb "to be" which is the most frequently used and most irregular verb in English. You can look up the conjugations quite easily so I'm not going to go into that.

Those are the basic tenses of English. Feel free to email me with any questions.

Nicole Said:

How many Tenses do we have in English Language?

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Although there are three basic tenses (past, present and future) there are actually many more than this:

1) Past perfect (I went)
2) Past imperfect (I was going)
3) Past historic (I had gone)
4) Present simple (I go)
5) Present continuous (I am going)
6) Future (I will go)
7) Conditional (I would / could / should go)

Beatrice Said:

How many tenses are there in English? Is Time and Tense different?

We Answered:

Present Simple Used to say what someone usually does------ I always study English on Tuesday.
Present Progressive/ continuous Used to say what someone is doing now ----I am studying English now
Present Perfect Simple Used to show unfinished time----- I have studied English twice this week.
Present Perfect Progressive Used to say how long someone has been doing something. •I have been studying English for 2 years.
•I have been studying English since 1997.
Simple Past Used to show a completed action •I studied English last Saturday
Past Progressive Often used to say when something was being done or what was happening when something else happened •I was studying English last Monday when my friend rang.
•I was studying English at 5pm last Monday
Past Perfect Simple The past of have done. Used to say when something was done by. •I had done my English homework by 6.30 pm last Saturday
Past Perfect Progressive The past of have been. Used to show how long something was done for by a certain time. •I'd been doing my English homework for 30 minutes when my friend rang last Saturday.----•I'd been doing my English homework for 30 minutes by 1 pm last Saturday.
Simple Future (Some uncertainty) Decide to do something at the time of speaking I think I'll do my English homework tonight.
Simple Future (Certain) Have already decided or arranged to do something ---I am going to study English next Saturday
Future Progressive--- I will be starting my English lesson at 7.30 pm
Future Perfect Simple Used to say something will already be complete by a time---. I will have already done my English homework by the time I eat dinner on Saturday.
Future Perfect Progressive Used to say how long something will have been happening in the future by a certain time. I will have been studying English for 30 minutes when my friends arrive.

Kathleen Said:

how can i explain the difference between tenses in english.?

We Answered:

You can visit the following link which shows the video for tenses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsmc5uG7-pk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t43sBgglemw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrcEXsySxIo&feature=related

You can watch this videos. I hope you will get what you want

Bonnie Said:

Table of twelve tenses in English language?

We Answered:

Go here:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/e…
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Judy Said:

what are the complexes active tenses in english grammar?

We Answered:

I'm not sure what you mean by 'complex active', but I'm assuming you mean a tense that uses auxiliary verbs.

Present progressive = ! am going.
Past progressive = I was going
Future progressive = I will be going
Present perfect - I have gone
Past perfect = I had gone
Future perfect = I will have gone
Present perfect progressive = I have been going
Past perfect progressive = I had been going
Future perfect progressive = I will have been going

The other active tenses are:

Present = I go
Past = I went
Future = I will go.

Some grammarians say there are only two non-complex tenses - present and past - and that what is called the future tense should really be classed with the other tenses using auxiliary verbs, giving a total of ten and only two 'plain' tenses.

Ralph Said:

What is the use of this Tenses in English Grammar?

We Answered:

.....I am sitting on a chair ....now
EVERY day i SIT on a chair, eat food and sing
Tomorrow i will sit on a chair,eat food and sing
Tomorrow i will be sitting on a chair for an hour,eating food and singing.
The difficulty is in NOt using ING on the end of the verb when it is something you do regularly.
yesterday i sat on a chair ate food and sang
yesterday while i was here i was sitting on a chair eating and singing