English Simple tenses

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English Simple tenses

Tenses demonstrate the time of actions centered around the subject of the sentence. These actions are called verbs and change according to tenses.

Future Simple tense

There are four Future tenses:

• Future Simple ('with Will' and 'with Going to')
• Future Continuous
• Future Perfect Simple
• Future Perfect Continuous

Future Simple is used:

• to predict an event in the future
• to invite
• to give orders
• to express willingness
• for actions that have not yet occurred but that will occur at a future date

Past Simple tense

There are four Past tenses:

• Past Simple
• Past Continuous
• Past Perfect Simple
• Past Perfect Continuous

Past simple expresses:

• an action that happened in the past and has no connection with the present
• an action that happened once in the past
• an action that happened regularly in the past
• an action that was true for some time in the past
• an event or action that already occurred
• an action that is finite - has both a starting and a stopping point

Some adverbs used with Past Simple:

• yesterday
• last month, last year
• ago (e.g. two days ago)
• in (e.g. in 1997)
• never, always, seldom, often, frequently, occasionally, once, twice

Structure:

Did + subject + Base Form of the Verb?

e.g. Where did you meet her?

Did she cook a cake last weekend?/ Did you go to school yesterday?

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Form of word "to be":

Form of word "to have":

Structure:

Subject + did not/didn’t + Base Form of the Verb

e.g. They didn’t like my food.

She did't cook a cake last weekend./ You didn't go to school yesterday.

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Form of word "to be":

Form of word "to have":

Structure:

Subject + Verb in Past Simple (2nd form)

e.g. They lived in Spain three years ago.

She cooked a cake last weekend./You went to school yesterday.

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Form of verb 'to be':

Form of verb 'to have':

Present Simple tense

There are four Present tenses:

• Present Simple
• Present Continuous
• Present Perfect
• Present Perfect Continuous

Simple

Present Simple is used for:

• habits
• general truths
• repeated actions of events
• fixed arrangements/timetables
• feelings/opinions/beliefs
• instructions.

Some adverbs used with Present Simple:

• always
• usually
• seldom
• never
• sometimes
• often
• frequently, generally
• habitually, occasionally
• once, twice

Общий вопрос

Structure:

Do + Subject (I, You, We, They)+ V1 (First Form of Verb)?

Does + Subject (He, She, It)+V1 (First Form of Verb)?

e.g. Where does he work?

Do we usually walk in the park?/ Does he run every day?

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Form of word "to be":

Form of word "to have":

Отрицание

Structure:

Subject (I, You, We, They) + do not / don’t + V1 (First Form of Verb)

Subject (He, She, It) + does not / doesn’t + V1 (First Form of Verb)

e.g. He doesn’t work in a bank.

We don't usually walk in the park./ He doesn't run every day.

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Form of word "to be":

Form of word "to have":

Утверждение

Structure:

Subject (I, You, We, They) + V1(First Form of Verb)

e.g. I usually go jogging at weekends.

Subject (He, She, It)+ V1(First Form of Verb) + s/es

e.g. She writes every day.

We usually walk in the park./ He runs every day.

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Form of verb "to be":

Form of verb "to have":