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Foundation English

TENSES At the end of the session, you understand Types of Tenses Examples of each tenses Comparative Table of Tenses Comparative Study of Present Tense Writing examples in Present Simple, Continuous, Perfect and Perfect Continuous Usage of Present tense The concept of time can be split into: The Present - What you are currently doing. I eat, I am eating The Past - What you did some time back. I ate, I was eating The Future - What you will do later. I will eat, I will be eating In the English language, tenses play an important role in sentence formation. The tense of a verb shows the time of an event or action. There are four types of tenses. Simple, Continuous, , Perfect and Perfect Continuous and each of these has a present, past and future form. PRESENT TENSES SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE In Simple Present, the action is simply mentioned and there is nothing being said about its completeness. I eat. I sleep. I play. PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE In Present Continuous, the action is on-going/ still going on and hence continuous. I am eating. I am sleeping. I am playing. PRESENT PERFECT TENSE In Present Perfect, the action is complete or has ended and hence termed Perfect. I have eaten. I have slept. I have played. PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE In Present Perfect Continuous, the action has been taking place for some time and is still ongoing. I have been eating. I have been sleeping. I have been playing. PAST TENSES

SIMPLE PAST TENSE In Simple Past, the action is simply mentioned and understood to have taken place in the past. I ate. I slept. I played. PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE In Past Continuous, the action was ongoing till a certain time in the past. I was eating. I was sleeping. I was playing. PAST PERFECT TENSE Past Perfect is used to express something that happened before another action in the past. I had eaten. I had slept. I had played. PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE Past Perfect Continuous is used to express something that started in the past and continued until another time in the past. I had been eating. I had been sleeping. I had been playing. FUTURE TENSES SIMPLE FUTURE TENSE Simple Future is used when we plan or make a decision to do something. Nothing is said about the time in the future. I will eat. I will sleep. I will play. FUTURE CONTINUOUS TENSE The future continuous tense is used to express action at a particular moment in the future. However, the action will not have finished at the moment. I will be eating at 9 a.m. I will be sleeping when you arrive. I will be playing at 5 p.m. FUTURE PERFECT TENSE Future Perfect expresses action that will occur in the future before another action in the future. I will have eaten before 10 a.m. I will have slept before you arrive. I will have played before 6 p.m. FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE Future Perfect Continuous is used to talk about an on-going action before some point in the future. I will have been sleeping for two hours when you arrive. I will have been playing for an hour when it is 5 p.m.

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TENSES TENSE SIMPLE/ INDEFINITE (s/es/ies) Do/does MV- I form ---PAST MV- II form MV- I form shall/will FUTURE MV- I form MV- ing MV- III form MV- ing form MV- ing form shall be/will be MV- III form shall have/will have MV- ing form shall have been/will have been MV- I form did CONTINUOUS am/is/are MV- ing form was/were PERFECT has/have MV- III form Had PERFECT CONTINUOUS has been/have been MV- ing form had been

PRESENT

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English Made Easy in 20 Minutes a Day! DAY-1:STUDY OF TENSES

Foundation English

Person/ Pronoun First Second

Singular I --He

Plural We You

Third

She It

They

Graphical Representation of Tenses Types of Pronoun Chart: Pronouns are used to replace a noun. However, they take different forms depending on how they are used in a sentence. This chart outlines the five types of pronouns and the correct forms for each. Subject Object Possessive Possessive Reflexive Persons pronouns pronouns determiners pronouns pronouns 1st person singular 2nd person singular 3rd person singular 1st person plural 2nd person plural 3rd person plural I you (thou) he she it We you they me you (thee) him her it us you them my your (thy) his her its our your their
hurry (jri) identify (aidnti fai) knit (nit) knot (not) label (libl) level (lvel) marry (mri) multiply (mltp lai) pedal (pdal) plan (plan) plug (plag) prefer (prfr) program (prgr am) regret (rigrt) rely (reli)

mine yours (thine) his hers -ours yours theirs

hurried (jrid) identified (aidntifai d) knitted (ntid) knotted (ntid) labelled (libld) levelled (lveld) married (mrid) multiplied (mltplid) pedalled (pdald) planned (pland) plugged (plagd) preferred (prifert) programmed (prgr amd) regretted (rigrtid) relied (relid)

myself yourself (thyself) himself herself itself ourselves yourselves themselves

hurried (jrid) identified (aidntifai d) knitted (ntid) knotted (ntid) labelled (libld) levelled (lveld) married (mrid) multiplied (mltplid) pedalled (pdald) planned (pland) plugged (plagd) preferred (prifert) programmed (prgr amd) regretted (rigrtid) relied (relid)

REGULAR VERBS (past root and past participles are the same; both end in 'ed') 1 INFINITIVE 2 PAST 3 PARTICIPLE admit (admt) ban (ban) beg (beg) bury (bri) clap (klp) copy (kpi) cry (kri) drop (drop) dry (dri) empty (mpti) fancy (fnsi) fit (fit) fry (fri) hug (jg) admitted (admtid) banned (bnd) begged (bgd) buried (brid) clapped (klpt) copied (kpid) cried (krid) dropped (drpt) dried (drid) emptied (mptid) fancied (fnsid) fitted (ftid) fried (frid) hugged (jgd) admitted (admtid) banned (bnd) begged (bgd) buried (brid) clapped (klpt) copied (kpid) cried (krid) dropped (drpt) dried (drid) emptied (mptid) fancied (fnsid) fitted (ftid) fried (frid) hugged (jgd)

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reply (repli) rob (rb) rub (rab) satisfy (satisfi) shop (shop) signal (sgnal) sin (sn) skip (skp) slip (slp) stop (stop) supply (sapli) terrify (trrifai) tip (tp) travel (trvel) try (tri) worry (uri)

replied (repldt) robbed (rbd) rubbed (rbd) satisfied (satisfid) shopped (shpt) signalled (sgnald) sinned (snd) skipped (skpt) slipped (slpt) stopped (stpt) supplied (saplid) terrified (trri-fid) tipped (tpt) travelled (trveld) tried (trid) worried (urid)

replied (replid) robbed (rbd) rubbed (rbd) satisfied (satisfid) shopped (shpt) signalled (sgnald) sinned (snd) skipped (skpt) slipped (slpt) stopped (stpt) supplied (saplid) terrified (trri-fid) tipped (tpt) travelled (trveld) tried (trid) worried (urid)

grow (gru) hang (jng) have (jev) hear (jar) keep (k:p) know (nu) learn (lrn) lose (l:s) make (mik) meet (m:t) pay (pi) put (put) read (rid) ride (rid) ring (ring) run (ran) say (si)

grew (gr) hung (jng) had (jad) heard (jerd) kept (kept) knew (ni) learnt (lernt) lost (lost) made (mid) met (met) paid (ped) put (put) read (red) rode (rud) rang (reng) ran (ren) said (sed) saw (su) sold (sold) sent (sent) showed (shut) shut (shat) sang (seng) slept (slpt) smelt (smelt) spoke (spuk) spent (spent) stood (st:d) stole (stul) swam (sum) took (tul) taught (tot) told (told) thought (zot) woke (uuk) wore (ur) won (un) wrote (rut)

grown (grn) hung (jng) had (jad) heard (jerd) kept (kept) known (nun) learnt (lernt) lost (lost) made (mid) met (met) paid (ped) put (put) read (red) ridden (rdn) rung (rang) run (ran) said (sed) seen (sin) sold (sold) sent (sent) shown (shun) shut (shat) sung (sang) slept (slpt) smelt (smelt) spoken (spukn) spent (spent) stood (st:d) stolen (stln) swum (sum) taken (tikn) taught (tot) told (told) thought (zot) waken (uikn) worn (urn) won (un) written (rtn)

List of Irrgegular Verbs

1 INFINITIVE 2 PAST 3 PARTICIPLE

see (s:) sell (sel) send (send) show (shu) shut (shat) sing (sing) sleep (slp) smell (smel) speak (spik) spend (spend) stand (stand) steal (stl) swim (sum) take (tik) teach (tch) tell (tel) think (zink) wake (uik) wear (uar) win (un) write (rit)

be (bi) become (bik m) begin (bigun) break (brik) bring (bring) build (bilt) buy (bi) catch (kach) choose (chus) come (km) cut (kat) do (d) draw (dr) drink (drink) drive (driv) eat (:t) fall (fol) feel (f:l) find (find) fly (fli) forget (forgut) get (gut) give (guv) go (gu)

was/were (us/ur) became (bikim) began (bign) broke (bruk) brought (brot) built (bilt) bought (bot) caught (kot) chose (chos) came (kem) cut (kat) did (dd) drew (dr) drank (drnk) drove (druv) ate (et) fell (fel) felt (felt) found (fand) flew (flu) forgot (forgt) got (got) gave (guiv) went (unt)

been (bin) become (bikm) begun (bign) broken (brukn) brought (brot) built (bilt) bought (bot) caught (kot) chosen (chsn) come (km) cut (kat) done (dn) drawn (drn) drunk (drank) driven (drvn) eaten (tn) fallen (flen) felt (felt) found (fund) flown (fln) forgotten (forgtn) got/gotten (got/gotn ) given (gvn) gone (gun)

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