Sekolah Belajar Bahasa Inggris 16 Tense
- Simple Present Tense ( S + Infinitive / Infinitive(s/es) )
- Stating that the confessed acts of habit.
- She usually eats noodle for breakfast’
- Stating the general truth that can not be denied.
- The sun rises in the east’
‘He can speak english’
- Present Continous Tense ( S + to be (am, is, are) + Present Participle(ing+form) )
- Stating that the ongoing actions.
- I am studying english’
- Stating a temporary action
- She is reading now, but will write soon’
- Stating that the act referred to in the future.
- They are writing again in a few week’
- Present Perfect Tense ( S + have/has + Past Participle )
- Stating yan activities conducted the past and still have something to do with the present, but it did not last.
- I have taught english for one week’ à time the incident is not clear
- Stating the events that happened.
- She has eaten’
- Indicates an action replay at the time was not necessarily before now. The words are often used : before, already, ever, never, yet.
- I’ve heard before’
- She has never been there before’
- Indicates actions completed in a short time. The words are often used: at last, finally, just, recently.
- The time at last arrived’
- Present Perfect Continous Tense ( S + have/has +been + Present Participle )
- Stating that the act which started at the time of the past and still persists today.
- We have been waiting for you since eight o’clock’
- Past Tense ( S + Past Tense )
- Stating that the act that was completed at the past (the time obviously)
- She came here last month’
- Past Continous Tense ( She + was/were + Present Participle)
- Stating that the act had already started and is still going on when the other acts followed in the past..
- When I came to his home, he was playing computer’
- Stating that the act was happening in the past
- He was watching TV all afternoon yesterday’
- Past Perfect Tense ( S + had + Past Participle )
- Stating what she had done before the other actions performed on the past.
- When my mother went, I had cleaned that room’.
- He told me has name after I had asked him twice’
- Note : Past Perfect should be used if time is an act of the past sooner than other actions.
- The first deed is done, we use Past Perfect, and the second act we use Past Tense.
- Past Perfect Continous ( S + had + been + Present Participle )
- Demonstrate ongoing actions in the past.
- When I finished my dinner, he had been playing guitar’
- When I came to Surabaya in 1980, he had already been living there about five years’
- Future Tense ( S + will/shall + Infinitive )
- Declare acts to be done in the future.
- She will review that lesson’
- I shall go wih you’
- Future Continous Tense ( S + will/shall + be + Present Participle )
- Indicates actions that will occur when it is clear
- At this time tomorrow, I shall be getting exam’
- He will be studying at eight o’clock tomorrow’
- Future Perfect Tense ( S + will/shall + have + Past Participle )
- Stating that the act had begun in the past and soon will be completed in time to come.
- By next week, I shall have read this book’
- Shinta will have done this work by the end of this week’
- Future Perfect Continous Tense (S + will/shall + have + been + Present Participle)
- Such as Future Perfect, but the act is likely to continue in the future.
- By the end of this year, we shall have been studying Korean language for three years’
- Past Future Tense ( S + would/should + Infinitive )
- Stating that the act will be done in the past
- They would go to Balik Papan the following day’
- He would buy a car the previous day’
- Past Future Continous Tense ( S + would/should + be + Present Pariciple )
- - Stating that will act being done in the past.
- ‘I should be taking an examination at this time the following day’
- Past Future Perfect Tense ( S + would/should + have + Past Participle )
- Stating assumptions that might not happen because the conditions are certainly not be met, but only as an assumption that the requirements are fulfilled in the past.
- He would have graduated, if he had studied hard’
- In fact : He didn’t graduated.
- Past Future Perfect ( S + would/should + have + been + Present Participle )
- Like Future Perfect Tense, but in the past.