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What is tense In grammar tense means time If the sentence is occurring in the present the action is happening right now If the sentence occurred in the past it already happened Present Tense ID: 324563

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Present and Past Tense

What is tense?

In grammar, tense means time. If the sentence is occurring in the present, the action is happening right now. If the sentence occurred in the past, it already happened.Slide2

Present Tense

The present tense

refers to an action which is happening right now. Add an s when the subject is singular, except for when the pronoun is I or you.

Plural Subjects,

I, and you

Singular subjects

The llamas go to the theater.

The llama goes to the theater.

I jump

off the pier.

Mrs. Dunlap

jumps off the pier.

They eat pizza with pineapple.

She

eats pizza with pineapple.

Spiders spin their webs.

The spider spins

its web.

You look tired

and grumpy.

Grumpy Cat looks tired and grumpy.Slide3

Present Tense Exceptions

If the verb ends with s, x, z, ch

, or sh, add es when the subject is singular.

Singular subject

Plural Subject, I, and you

The pink shirt clashes with my lime green pants.

The cheetah print socks

clash with the shoes.

My left ear buzzes constantly.

The bees buzz.

My cat misses his food dish when I put it away for the day.The llamas miss summer break now that school has begun.

When a verb ends with a consonant and a y, change the y to I and add es for the singular form.

Singular subject

Plural Subject, I, and you

The spy pries

the box open.

Sometimes

spies pry on citizens.

The student complies

with the teacher’s request.

The students comply with the teacher’s request.Slide4

Past Tense

Past tense shows actions which has already happened. To form the past tense, we add –

ed to the verb.

Present tensePast tense

jump

jumped

yell

yelled

laugh

laughed

When a one syllable verb ends with a vowel followed by a single consonant, double the consonant before adding the –ed.

Present tensePast tenseslip

slipped

hop

hopped

lap

lappedSlide5

Past Tense Continued

When a verb ends with e

, drop the e and add ed.

Present tense verbPast tense verb

sparkle

sparkled

shave

shaved

jingle

jingled

When the verb ends with y, change the

y to i and add ed.Present tense verb

Past tense verb

party

partied

tally

tallied

supply

supplied