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PRESENT--what's happening right now
example :It is raining.

FUTURE--what will happen
example: It will rain tomorrow.

PAST--what already happened.
example: It rained yesterday.

you can do as many examples following this format as you like.

2007-10-11 12:45:46 · answer #1 · answered by Mike 7 · 0 0

Present tense:
There are 2 kinds of present tenses: present simple tense (which has verbs ended with and present continuous tense.
You use simple present tense to say about something that happens repeatedly, continuously in a long period of time (such as a habit) e.g: "He eats beef but not pork" / "I don't go to class pretty often."
Also, you use present tense to indicate an action that is happening at the moment you express it. In this case, the present tense should be changed into present continuous tense e.g: She just loves to cry. She is crying right now also. (The first sentence: "She just loves to cry.", you use simple present tense because "loves to cry" is an action repeatedly happens, and the following sentence: "She is crying right now also.", you have to use present continuous tense (to be Ving) specifically in the sentence is "is crying" because you are seeing her crying in front of your eyes. A sentence which uses present continuous tense usually has "now" included in it.

Past tense: it is kind of the same with present tense. It also has 2 kinds: simple past tense and continuous past tense but to describe actions that already happened at a certain time in the past instead of happening in present. You have to have a specific time mark such as yesterday, last week, last month, 2 months ago ...at the beginning or the end of the sentence. For example: "Yesterday you called me, but i could not pick up the phone. I was so busy doing my homeworks." or "At 2 o'clock last Tuesday, I was taking my driver license test." here in this sentence, you have more specific time information which is exactly 2 o'clock, so you use continuous past tense (was taking). So, whenever you want to say something happened in the past but dont have specific information about the hour, you use simple past tense, and vice versa, when you have specific time hour, you should use continuous past tense. Also, another case happends something like: "When you were doing homework yesterday, I called you." or " While you were doing homework yesterday, I was talking on the phone with Lisa."

Future tense: You use future tense to describe actions that will happen sometimes in the future. There are 3 types of future tenses. For example: "We WILL MAKE a plan for our project tomorrow. We WILL BE FOLLOWING it up throughout this month, and at the beginning of next month, we WILL HAVE COMPLETED our project."

There are a lot more to say but more importantly, you should practice. It's not hard to find a website that you can go on and take courses or download self-practice workbook. Just go to google and type: Basic English grammar structure practice. Here is one link for you to try : http://esl.about.com/od/grammarforbeginners/Grammar_for_Beginning_Level_English_Learners.htm
Good luck and study well !!!

2007-10-11 20:52:57 · answer #2 · answered by vietnamese 2 · 0 0

If you use the first person, I am , I will and I was.Your tense is simply what you are or were or will be doing. I sing, I sang or I will sing. It can also go, I danced, I dance or I will dance, How about, I ride the bike, I rode the bike and I will ride the bike. Good luck, hope this helped a little.

2007-10-11 19:54:17 · answer #3 · answered by Ava 5 · 0 0

Future: Tomorrow John will play in the game.
Present: John plays. See John play.
Past: Yesterday, John played a perfect game.
Past Perfect: Yesterday, knowing his team needed him to do so, John had played a perfect game.

2007-10-11 19:51:57 · answer #4 · answered by darkdiva 6 · 0 0

Present tense refers to "now", such at "I sing".
Past tense refers to things that have happened in the past, such as "I was singing yesterday".
Future tense refers to things that will happen or has not yet happened, such as "I will sing tomorrow".
Some tutorial examples below:

2007-10-11 19:45:56 · answer #5 · answered by Deanna 2 · 0 0

Hi,
Go to understanding grammer for free,than clink on search.Go to number three.There are several web sites to chose from.

2007-10-11 19:51:06 · answer #6 · answered by angels 3 · 0 0

Go to a search engine and type purdue owl lab

Good luck!

2007-10-11 19:43:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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