Cambrian College

First Digital Campus in Bangladesh

Md. Abdur Razzak Sarker Associate Professor

Department of EnglishCambrian College Dhaka.

Tense denotes the time of the action indicated by a verb. The time is not always the same as that indicated by the name of the tense.

Objectives

By the end of the lesson you will be able : to identify different tenses. to know the kinds of tenses to know structures of sentences in different tenses.

One thing happened in the past, and is in progress at the present time, and probably will continue.

Ex: I am washing the dishes.

am walking

is + doing

are staying (verb + ing)

Present perfect tense expresses action completed at the present time (perfect means complete) or begun in the past and continuing into the present.

This tense uses the helping verbs has and have and the past participle of the verb.

Examples: He has written a letter to his uncle. (completed action) The Waltons have lived here for seven years. (continuing)

‡h wµqvi KvR AZxZ mg‡q ïiæ n‡q GL‡bv Pj‡Q Zv‡K Present Perfect Continuous Tense e‡j|

Structure: Subject + (have/has) + been + Verb + ing + Object. They + have + been+ do + ing + the

work. (sub.) + (have v.) + (been) + (v.) + ing + (obj.) Negative Gi Structure: Subject + have not been/has not been +

Present form of Verb + ing + obj./ext. + for/since + Time. †m cuvP wgwbU a‡i fvZ Lv‡”Q bv| He has not been eating

rice for five minutes. Avwg †mvgevi †_‡K K‡j‡R hvw”Q bv| I have not been

going to college since Monday.

At one particular time in the past, it happened. It began and ended in past.

Ex: I walked to school this morning.

Regular: played, walked,

noticed

Irregular : became, began blew, grew thought, taught cut, hurt, let

Answer the following question. (a) Can you differentiate present simple and simple

past tense?

True or false. If false, give the correct answer.(a) Tenses play insignificant role in English language. True/false.

Identify the tenses of the following sentences.

The above sentence is in simple

past tense.

Now try to fill in the blanks with verbs of correct tenses discussing in groups from the hands out.

Write a paragraph in about 100 — 120 words about Environment Pollution using the correct tenses.

All the best.

Thank you.

Thank you.