TENSE REVISION

PRESENT SIMPLE & CONTINUOUSPAST SIMPLE & CONTINUOUS

PRESENT & PAST PERFECT

TENSE REVIEW

Eduardo Arcas Tense Revision

PRESENT SIMPLE

It is used to express habits, facts that are always true or that stay the same for a long time.> Ex. I go to school every day / Some birds fly south in winter / He works in a bank

Adverbs of frequency (never, rarely, often, usually, hardly ever…) go before the main verb (not to be)

Be careful with verbs such as to be, to have or modal verbs

POSITIVE NEGATIVE QUESTIONI/ you / we /

they play football

I/… don’t play football

Do I/… play football?

He / she / (it) plays football

He/… doesn’t play football

Does he/… play football?


PRESENT SIMPLE II: spelling

Most verbs: add –s to infinitive Work works

Verbs ending in consonant + y: change y to i and add –es

Cry criesReply replies

Verbs ending in –s, -z, -ch, -sh or –x: add –es to infinitive

Miss missesFix fixes

Exceptions Have hasGo goesDo does


PRESENT CONTINUOUS

It is used to express activities that are happening now or which are true now even if they are not really happening at the moment of speaking. See THE FUTURE for more uses. Ex. My mother is cooking now / I am also reading that

book!

All continuous tenses in English are TO BE + -ing


STATIVE VERBS

They usually conjugate in PRES. SIMPLE and express

FEELINGS

MENTAL VERBS

SENSES OTHER


HATE

WANT

PREFER

ENJOY

DISLIKE

HOPELOVE

LIKE

GUESS

KNOW

FORGET

REMEMBER

BELIEVE

AGREE

SMELL SEE

FEEL HEAROWN

TOUCHTASTE

DEPEND NEED

HAVEBELONG

MEASURE

COST

PAST SIMPLE

It is used to express a finished action in the past. Last week I went shopping and then I had a coke in a pub.

To express habits in the past USED TO is used. My teacher used to give us a lot of homework. *My teacher usually gave us a lot of homework.


PAST CONTINUOS

It is used to express past actions but focusing on the duration. I was sleeping all night

These actions are sometimes interrupted by another shorter action (Past Simple). The brickie was working when the wall collapsed

Two actions in the Past Continuous are simultaneous I was surfing the Net and listening to music at the same time


DIAGRAMS

Two simultaneous actions

(Past Continuous)

Short action (Past Simple) interrupting a

longer one (Past Cont.)

Short actions one after another (Past Simple)


PRESENT PERFECT

Actions that began in the past and still continues. I have driven my car for two years

Actions that have an effect on the present. My mother has opened the window

Actions that happened at some unknown time in the past. We have been to Greece


MORE PRESENT PERFECT

Introducesa period of

time

Introducesa momentin the past

The subject is

back

The subject is still there

We have lived here for a year

We have lived here since 2008

She has been to France

She has gone to France

ALREADY: positive (m)YET: negative & question (f)JUST: recent action (m)


PAST PERFECT

It is used to express an action that happens before another past action. When my brother arrived, we had already had lunch


THE FUTURE

Edu Arcas – Tenses Review

TENSE REVISION

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