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What are the 12 tenses of verb?
Present Simple, Present Perfect, Present Continuous, Present Perfect Continuous,
Past Simple, Past Perfect, Past Continuous, Past Perfect Continuous,
Future Simple, Future Perfect, Future Continuous, and Future Perfect Continuous.
What tense is:
"She lives in a beautiful house."
Present Simple
What tense is:
"They will play volleyball in the park."
Future Simple
What is Present Simple tense?
- an action is happening right now, or when it happens regularly
- a routine
- something that you always do
I teach English. (5 years)
Present Perfect Continuous: ____________________
I have been teaching English for 5 years.
What tense is:
"My father went to the supermarket this morning to buy some milk."
Past Simple
subject + had + past participle
Past Perfect
For extra 100 points: Give an example
The _______________ tense expresses action in the future before another action in the future.
Future Perfect
For extra 100 points: Please give and example.
What tense is:
"Children are going to school."
Present Continuous
She wrote a letter for him. (tonight)
Future Continuous: _______________________
She will be writing a letter for him tonight.
What tense is:
"She was studying all day today."
Past Continuous
What tense is:
"I have been studying hard to become a doctor."
Present Perfect Continuous
An event that happened in the past but affects the present is _________________?
Present Perfect tense
For extra 100 points: Give an example
What tense is:
"By the time you read this, I will have left."
Future Perfect
He is playing the piano. (an hour)
Past Perfect Continuous: ____________________
He had been playing the piano for an hour.
What tense is:
"We had been cooking dinner for 30 minutes before the guests arrived."
Past Perfect Continuous
What is the formula for Future Perfect Continuous?
Give an example.
will + have + been + verb + ing
TENSES:
The police arrived at the crime scene.
The thief had escaped when the police arrived.
Past Simple
Past Perfect
What is the difference between Past Simple and Present Perfect?
Give examples
Past Simple - past events or actions which have no connection to the present
Present Perfect - actions which started in the past and are still happening now OR for finished actions which have a connection to the present
They will go to Palawan next month.
Past Simple: __________________
They went to Palawan.
What tense is:
"I will be working for a good company by the end of the year."
Future Continuous
What is the difference between Past Simple and Past Perfect?
Give examples
Past Simple - talk about an action in the past
Past Perfect - talk about something that happened before another action in the past.
What is the difference between Past Perfect and Present Perfect?
Give examples
Past Perfect - used to show that something happened before another action in the past
Present Perfect - used to express an event that happened in the past that has present consequences
What is the difference between Past Perfect Continuous and Present Perfect Continuous?
Past Perfect Continuous - indicates something that began in the past, continued in the past, and also ended at a defined point in the past
Present Perfect Continuous - indicates an action that began in the past and has continued up to the present
He was cooking dinner when she arrived.
Past Perfect: _____________________
He had cooked dinner when she arrived.