Past Tense - Part I

Everybody wants to know about their past life and some people want to forget their past. Hope you understood what I'm talking about. Yes, we're now gonna discuss about past tense.

  Past tense is nothing but describes the things that happened in the past. Based on how and when the things happened in the past, we divide the past tense into 4 categories:

1. Simple Past
2. Past Continuous
3. Past Perfect
4. Past Perfect Continuous

  From now on, we will discuss both active voice and passive voice of each tense and their usage.

1. Simple Past: 

Tenses: Present Perfect Continuous

 d) Present Perfect Continuous Tense:
             
                       This tense can be used when an activity has been started in the past and is still being run in the present.

 formula: subject + have/has + been + v1 + ing + object

Ex: I have been working for 5 hours.

Tenses: Present Perfect

In this blog, we are going to discuss about Present Perfect Tense in detail.


c) Present Perfect Tense:

                         This tense can be used when an activity or a task has been completed a little while ago. It can be a past, but has a relation with the present. If you are still confusing with this explanation, look at the following formula and examples:

 Formula: Subject + have/has + v3 + object

Ex: 1) I have completed my task just now.

  explanation:

Tenses: Present Continuous

  I hope you guys have got some idea about tenses and simple present tense by reading my previous blogs..........Let's continue discussing about more today.

b) Present Continuous:

      * By the name itself, we can say that this tense can only be used for the activities that are still happening. If an activity is already completed, then it can not be said to be in present continuous tense. For easy understanding, "I am writing this blog right now". This activity is happening now, so we can say in this tense. I can not talk about yesterday's blogs in this tense.

   Formula:

Tenses: Simple Present

From this blog, I will start discussing about tenses and their formulas.....

As we already discussed in the previous blog, we know that there are 3 tenses in English, they are Present, Past and Future.
  Each tense is classified into 4 different sub tenses based on the timing of an action.

1. Present Tense:

a) Simple Present
b) Present Continuous
c) Present Perfect
d) Present Perfect Continuous

a) Simple Present Tense:

           This tense is used for hobbies, universal truths, facts and things that happen on a daily basis.

Formula: