Introduction to English Tenses

Overview

• Presenter: Alisha
• Platform: EnglishClass101.com
• Focus: Introduction to English tenses with examples
• Categories of tenses: Present, Past, and Future

Present Tenses

1. Present Simple Tense

• Usage:
  • General facts
  • Regular actions
  • Schedules
• Examples:
  • "He speaks English."
  • "I work on Mondays."
  • "I don’t eat lunch at 2 o'clock."

2. Present Continuous Tense

• Usage:
  • Continuing actions happening now
  • Trends
  • One-time future actions
• Examples:
  • "I'm teaching."
  • "That TV show is becoming popular."
  • "I'm working this Saturday."

3. Present Perfect Tense

• Usage:
  • General life experiences (no specific time)
• Examples:
  • "He has never been to Spain."

4. Present Perfect Continuous Tense

• Usage:
  • Actions started in the past and continue to the present
• Examples:
  • "I've been studying English for two years."
  • "I've been studying English since 2016."
  • "I've been studying English since two years ago."

Past Tenses

1. Past Simple Tense

• Usage:
  • Actions started and finished in the past
• Examples:
  • "I taught simple present tense earlier."
  • "I worked all night."
  • "They didn’t come to the party."

2. Past Continuous Tense

• Usage:
  • Actions that were continuing in the past
  • Often includes a specific point in time
• Examples:
  • "We were listening to music yesterday."
  • "I was doing something."

3. Past Perfect Tense

• Usage:
  • Actions completed or not completed at a nonspecific point in the past
• Examples:
  • "They hadn't departed yet."
  • "I had taken my lunch break."

4. Past Perfect Continuous Tense

• Usage:
  • Actions started in the past, continued to an unspecified past time, and finished
• Examples:
  • "They had been waiting since 3 p.m."

Future Tenses

1. Future Simple Tense

• Usage:
  • Planned or unplanned future actions
• Examples:
  • "I'll have a glass of wine."
  • "He's going to cook dinner."

2. Future Continuous Tense

• Usage:
  • Actions expected to be continuing in the future
• Examples:
  • "I'm not going to be working at company A."

3. Future Perfect Tense

• Usage:
  • Actions expected to be completed by a certain future time
• Examples:
  • "I will have lived in China for two years."

4. Future Perfect Continuous Tense

• Usage:
  • Actions started in the past, expected to continue into the future
• Examples:
  • "I won't have been eating meat for three months."

Conclusion

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