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Understanding Tense Structures

This document provides a summary of common English tense structures. It lists the present, past, and future forms of simple, continuous, and perfect tenses. For example, the present simple is formed with the base verb form, the past simple uses the past form, and the future uses "will" plus the base verb form. It also notes that continuous tenses use "be" plus the present participle and perfect tenses use "have" plus the past participle.

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Understanding Tense Structures

This document provides a summary of common English tense structures. It lists the present, past, and future forms of simple, continuous, and perfect tenses. For example, the present simple is formed with the base verb form, the past simple uses the past form, and the future uses "will" plus the base verb form. It also notes that continuous tenses use "be" plus the present participle and perfect tenses use "have" plus the past participle.

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B.Sc.

(Applied Accounting) General / Special Degree


Year 01- Semester 01
Course : Bridging Course - English

Tense Structures – Short Note

Present Present simple form I go to the cinema every week

Past Simple Past simple form I went to the cinema last week

Future Will + bare infinitive I will go to the cinema with you

Present Am/are/is + present participle I'm watching a film

Past Continuous Was/were + present participle I was watching a film earlier

Future Will be + present participle I will be watching a film at 8pm tonight

Present Have/has + past participle I have seen Harry Potter 3 times

By the time I arrived at the cinema, the


Past Had + past participle
film had finished
Perfect

I will have finished watching season 2 of


Future Will have + past participle
Game of Thrones by 9pm

Have/has + been + present I have been sitting outside for 2 hours


Present
participle now

I had been waiting in the queue for 20


Perfect
Past Had + been + present participle minutes, before we were told to go
Continuous home.

Will have + been + present When I graduate, I will have been


Future
continuous studying philosophy for 3 years

Future with "going I am going to visit my parents next


Am/are/is + going + infinitive
to" weekend

As you may have observed, all continuous tenses use a form of the verb ‘be’ and a present
participle, whereas all perfect tenses use a form of the verb ‘have’ and a past participle.

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