Verb Tenses in English Grammar

VERB TENSES

A verb indicates the time of an action, event or condition by changing its form. Through the use of a sequences of sentences in a sentences or in a paragraph, it is possible to indicate the complex temporal relationship of actions, events and conditions.

There are any ways of categorizing the twelve possible verb tense. The verb tense may be categorizing according to the time frame: past tense, present tense and future tense.

Verbs Tense: Time

The four present tenses

 1.     The simple present (I sing)

 2.     The present progressive (I am singing)

 3.     The present perfect (I have sung)

 4.     The present perfect progressive (I have been singing)

Note that the present perfect and present perfect progressive is in present and not in past tenses—the idea is that the speaker is currently in the state of having gone or having been going.

The four past tenses

 1.   The simple past (I sung)

 2.   The past progressive (I was singing)

 3.   The past perfect (I had sung)

 4.   The past perfect progressive (I had been singing)

The four future tenses

 5.   The simple future (I sung)

 6.   The future progressive (I will be singing)

 7.   The future perfect (I will have sung)

 8.   The future perfect progressive (I will have been singing)

Verb tense: Aspect

Verb aspect may also be grouped according to aspect. Aspect refers to the nature of the action described by the verb. There are three aspects:

Indefinite (or simple)

Complete (or perfect)

Continuing (or progressive)

The three indefinite tenses or simple tenses describes an action but not state the action is finished:

·       The simple past (I sung)

·       The simple present (I sing)

·       The simple future (I will sing)

A verb in the indefinite aspect is used when the beginning or ending of an action, an event, or condition is unknown or unimportant to the meaning of the sentence. The indefinite aspect is also used to be indicate a habitual or repeated action, event or condition.

The three complete tenses, or perfect tenses describes a finished action:

 ·       The past perfect (I had sung)

 ·       The present perfect (I have sung)

 ·       The future perfect (I will have sung)

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