Language Description notes part 2

This is a continuation from the previous post...

Tenses

1) Present Tense

a) Simple present - an action in the present taking place once, never or several times

i) Can be use with the adverb of frequency

Timeline of simple present


Example of usage for present tense

a) Present Continuous - events that are actually hap

pening now

i) Usually used with a doing verb –ing

Timeline of present continuous

Example:

a) Present perfect simple

i) Used to talk about a past time, which has very strong meaning for the present.

ii) Used with the auxiliary verb of has/have. It is also use to talk about things that just happened

iii) Timeline

Example

a) Present perfect Continuous

i) Often used (with for or since) to describe how long something has been happening up to now.

Timeline



iii) Used to refer to an event that may or may not be finished when it's effect can be seen now. Eg; Look! It’s been snowing.

1) Past Tense

a) Simple past

i) Used to talk about actions that happened at a specific time in the past.

ii) simple past of a verb by adding -ed onto the end of a regular verb and the have irregular verb form which need to be learned

Timeline of past tense

a) Past continuous

i) Describe a past action over a period of time.

ii) Used with a past form of verb to be (was/were) with verb –ing

Timeline

a) Past perfect Simple

i) Used to go further back in time when we are already talking about the past. It can make it clear that something had already happened at the time we are talking about.

ii) Form by using auxiliary verb (had) and the –ed form of regular verb

Timeline



Example of usage

a) Past perfect continuous

i) Used to talk about longer situations that continued up to the moment in the past we are talking about.

Timeline

i) Used with (had been)

ii) Eg; Her back was sore because she had been sitting at the computer all day.

1) Future Tense

a) Future Simple

i) We sometimes use the simple present form to discuss future events. Especially when talking about official events that happen at a set time such as timetables, meetings, itineraries, programmes etc.

ii) It is quite same with simple present tense but please refer the context of the sentence to determine the tenses

b) Present perfect future tense

i) You can use present perfect future to describe future perfect tense

ii) Use it with the auxiliary verb of will/shall

c) Future

i) We say something is going to happen when it has already been planned. With the use of “going to” but take note of the context of the sentence

ii) When we give information about the future or predict future events that are not certain we usually use shall/will. Eg; we will win the election in the future.