Active Tenses

 Simple Present
 Present Progressive
 Simple Past
 Past Progressive
 Future
 Present Perfect
 Present Perfect Progressive
 Past Perfect
 Future perfect
 Simple Present
Present General Habitual Future
Action or Truths Action Time
Condition

I hear you. There are I like The train

Here thirty days music. leaves at
comes the in I run on 4:00p.m.
September Tuesdays
bus. .
and
Sundays.
 Present Progressive
Activity in Progress Verbs of Perception

I am playing soccer He is feeling sad.

now.
 Simple Past
Completed Action Completed Condition

We visited the The weather was rainy

museum last week.
yesterday.
 Past Progressive
Past Action that took Past Action interrupted
place over a period of by another
time

They were climbing for We were eating dinner

twenty-seven days. when she told me.
 Future
With will/won't -- With going to -- future
Activity or event that in relation to
will or won't exist or circumstances in the
happen in the future present

I'll get up late I'm hungry.

tomorrow. I'm going to get
I won't get up early. something to eat.
 Present Perfect
With verbs of To express With events
state that begin habitual or occurring at an
in the past and continued indefinite or
lead up to and action unspecified
include the time in the past
present -- with ever,
never, before

He has lived He has worn Have you ever

here for many glasses all his been to Tokyo
years. life. before?
Present Perfect Progressive
To express duration of an action that began
in the past, has continued into the present,
and may continue into the future

David has been working for two hours, and he

hasn't finished yet.
 Past Perfect
To describe a past In reported speech
event or condition
completed before
another event in the
past
When I arrived home, Jane said that she had
he had already called. gone to the movies.
 Future perfect
To express action that will be completed by
or before a specified time in the future

By next month we will have finished this job.

He won't have finished his work until 2:00.
THE PASSIVE TENSES

Simple present
Present Progressive
Simple Past
Past Progressive
Future
Present Perfect
Past Perfect
Future perfect
 Simple present
Active Passive

The company ships Computers are

the computers to shipped to many
many foreign foreign countries.
countries.
 Present Progressive
Active Passive

The chef is preparing The food is being

the food. prepared.
 Simple Past
Active Passive

The delivery man The package was

delivered the package delivered yesterday.
yesterday.
 Past Progressive
Active Passive

The producer was An announcement was

making an being made.
announcement.
 Future
Active Passive

Our representative will The computer will be

pick up the computer. picked up.
 Present Perfect
Active Passive

The arrangements The arrangements

have been made for have been made for
us. us.
 Past Perfect
Active Passive

They had given us We had been given

visas for three visas for three
months. months.
 Future perfect
Active Passive

By next month we will By next month this job

have finished this job. will have been
finished.
ACTIVE / PASSIVE
VOICE
 Active voice

In most English sentences

with an action verb, the
subject performs the action
denoted by the verb.
 Because the subject does or
"acts upon" the verb in such
sentences, they are said to be
in the active voice.
 Passive voice

In such sentences the subject

is no longer active, but is,
instead, being acted upon by
the verb - or passive.
     In sentences with the
passive voice, Subject-
verb relationship changes
             
How to change a
sentence from Active
to Passive voice?
Move  the active sentence's
direct object into the
sentence's subject  slot
 Place the active sentence's
subject into a  phrase
beginning with the preposition
by
 Add a form of the
auxiliary verb be to the main
verb and change the  main
verb's form
A sentence in  active voice  is
easier to
understand than the same
sentence in  passive voice.
How to change a passive
voice sentence into an
active voice sentence?
 Move  the subject of the
passive sentence into the
direct object slot of the active 
sentence 
Remove  the auxiliary verb be
from the main verb and
change main verb's form if
needed
Place the passive sentence's
object of the preposition by
into the subject slot.
Because it is more direct, most
writers prefer to use the active
voice whenever possible.

However, the passive voice

may be a better choice, when
 The doer of the action is
unknown, unwanted, or
unneeded in the sentence
The writer wishes to emphasize
the action of the sentence
rather than the doer of the
action
 The writer wishes to use
passive voice for sentence
variety.