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Present Past Future Simple I walk I walked I will walk Progressi ve I am walking I was walking I will be walking Perfect I have walked I had walked I will have walked Perfect Progressive I hav. storytelling. The. . Present. . T. enses. Present simple. Used to describe facts. or routine. This . is. a photo of St Aubin’s bay. The school where I work . is. based there.. I . drive. to work round the coast every morning, and . A word that shows action, being or links a subject to a subject complement.. A math . metaphor . Most verbs SHOW action or make EQUATIONS. He is ugly (he=ugly). I jumped up.. The verb is ABOUT the noun.. O n l i n e W r i t i n g C e n t e r , D a r t o n S t a t e C o l l e g e 1 Verb Tenses I. future tenses. a. Verb tenses of regular verbs (using the verb to play ) : Singular Plural Present Tenses . Verbals. Verbs acting as other parts of speech. Examples. Milton . wanted . to eat. cookies.. . Listening. . to music makes. me happy. . The boys played for. . a . cheering. . crowd in their. A . tense. is the form of a verb that shows the time of an action or condition. The Six Verb Tenses. There are six tenses that indicate when an action or condition of a verb is, was, or will be in effect.. I . will. travel to Japan next summer : decision. I . am going to . study German at school: plan. WILL / GOING TO. The simple Future has two different forms in English: will and be going to. Although the two forms can sometimes be used interchangeably, they often express two different meanings as mentioned before.. The Present. Present Simple. Simple present tense is the most commonly used tenses, showing . facts, actions taking place one after another, action set by a timetable or schedule and action in the present taking place once, never or several times.. I . will. travel to Japan next summer : decision. I . am going to . study German at school: plan. WILL / GOING TO. The simple Future has two different forms in English: will and be going to. Although the two forms can sometimes be used interchangeably, they often express two different meanings as mentioned before.. There are three tenses :. . The Present Tense. . The Past Tense. . The Future Tense.. Each of the three tenses has four forms or sub-divisions to show continuity or completeness of the action and time. These are :. Dr Julia Miller. English for Uni. www.adelaide.edu.au/english-for-uni. The teaching materials in this PowerPoint presentation have been developed by Dr Julia Miller and are available on the English for . SIMPLE PRESENT. Habits, facts, opinions.. Stative incomplete actions.. I hate cats.. Cats have 4 legs.. I feel bad right now.. PRESENT. PROGRESSIVE. Incomplete dynamic actions. . Happening now.. I’m studying English.. Understanding What Is Meant from What Is Said A Study in Conversationally Conveyed Requests 1 AND PETER LUCY Stanford University For a sentence such as Must you open the door how does the listener com COMPILED & PRESENTED BY . VINAYA AMMANNA. What are Tenses ?.. Tenses are a form of a verb that denotes the time, an action takes place. .. Eg: I . study. English. Eg: I . studied. VERB- denotes any action. HELPING VERB- verb that support main action. MAIN VERB- main action. For example-. He will write a letter.. Write (main action). Will (helping verb or supporting verb). INTRODUCTION-.