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Tense - Easy Learning Grammar

Time reference

Verb forms help us make time reference through their tense. Tense shows whether an action or a state took place in the past or takes place in the present.
  • Jessica works in the post office.
  • Laurence worked in the post office over the Christmas holidays.
There are two simple tenses and six compound tenses.

Simple tenses

The simple tenses consist of a single word.There is a present simple tense
I likeI live
you likeyou live
he likeshe lives
and a past simple tense.
I likedI lived
you likedyou lived
he likedhe lived

The simple tenses of regular verbs

The present tense is the same as the base form of the verb, except that an -s is added to the verb when it has a noun or he, she, or it as a subject. This is called the 3rd person singular form.
  • he/she/it likes
  • he/she/it lives
The past tense of a regular verb is made from the base form of the verb with -ed (or -d if the verb already ends in -e) added. The spelling is the same for all persons.
I likedI lived
you likedyou lived
he likedhe lived

The simple tenses of irregular verbs

Most irregular verbs make the present tense from the base form of the verb just as regular verbs do.
Present 
I findI go
you findyou go
he/she/it findshe/she/it goes
  • Irregular verbs make the past tense in a number of different ways. Sometimes the past tense is a completely different word. See Irregular verbs for more on irregular verbs.
Past 
I foundI went
you foundyou went
he/she/it foundhe/she/it went
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Indice dei contenuti
  • Parts of speech
  • Parts of the sentence
  • Direct and indirect objects
  • Verbs
  • Tense
  • The verb phrase
    • Types of main verb
    • The forms of main verbs
    • Irregular verbs
    • Auxiliary verbs
    • Be
    • Have
    • Do
    • Modal verbs
    • Can and could
    • May and might
    • Must
    • Shall and will
    • Should
    • Would
    • Ought to
    • Dare and need
    • Used to
    • Phrasal verbs
    • Tense
    • Aspect
    • Compound tenses
    • The present simple tense
    • The past simple tense
    • The present continuous tense
    • The past continuous tense
    • The present perfect tense
    • The past perfect tense
    • The present perfect continuous tense
    • The past perfect continuous tense
    • Future reference
    • Active and passive
    • Finite and non-finite verbs
    • The non-finite parts of the verb
    • The to infinitive
    • The to infinitive and the -ing form
  • The noun phrase
    • The noun phrase
    • Types of noun
    • Gender of nouns
    • Showing possession through nouns
    • Compound nouns
    • Number in nouns
    • Verbal nouns
  • Determiners and adjectives
    • Determiners
    • The indefinite article
    • The definite article
    • Nouns used without a determiner
    • Demonstratives
    • Possessives
    • Quantifiers
    • Numbers
    • Distributives
    • Exclamatives
    • Noun phrases with several determiners
    • Adjectives
    • Comparison
  • Adverbials
    • Adverbs and adverbials
    • Form of adverbs
  • Pronouns
    • Pronouns
    • Personal pronouns
    • Reflexive pronouns
    • Possessive pronouns
    • The demonstrative pronouns
    • Relative pronouns
    • Interrogative pronouns
    • Indefinite pronouns
  • Prepositions
  • Word order; declarative, interrogative and imperative statements
    • Word order in sentences
    • Declarative, interrogative, and imperative statements
    • The declarative
    • Complements
    • Word order in negative statements
    • The interrogative
    • WH- words
    • Sentence tags
    • The imperative
    • The vocative
    • The subjunctive
    • Exclamations
    • Responses
  • Clauses
    • Sentences and clauses
    • Joining clauses
    • Subordination
    • Adverbial clauses
    • Relative clauses
    • Conditional clauses
    • Reporting speech
    • Reported speech
  • Punctuation
    • The apostrophe ( ’ )
    • The comma ( , )
    • Quotation marks (‘ ’) or (“ ”)
    • Capital letters
    • The full stop ( . )
    • The question mark ( ? )
    • The exclamation mark ( ! )
    • The colon ( : )
    • The semicolon ( ; )
    • Brackets ( )
    • Square brackets [ ]
    • The hyphen ( - )
    • The dash ( – )
    • The slash ( / )
    • Punctuation in numbers
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