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Understanding Verb Tense
What are verb tenses?
Present and present perfect
Past and past perfect
Future and future perfect
Consistency of tense
Review A
Review B
What are verb tenses?
Verbs take different forms to show all the possibilities for when something can happen.
She will draw. She draws. She has drawn.
Why do verbs have so many different forms?
The tense of a verb indicates the time of the action or state of being expressed by the verb. Each tense has its own use.
What are verb tenses?
Present
Present perfect
Past
Past perfect
Future
Future perfect
He had lived in Georgia before that.
Paul once lived in Utah.
He will have lived there four years.
Paul will live in Boston for a long time.
He has lived in several cities.
Paul lives in Boston.
Mom drinks orange juice.
What are verb tenses?Present and present perfect
The present tense expresses a general truth, an action that occurs regularly, or a state of being that exists at the present time.
Present
Present
What are verb tenses?Present and present perfect
The present perfect tense
• is usually formed with have or has plus the past participle
• expresses an action that occurred or a state of being that existed at an indefinite time in the past
Saul has drunk his juice already.
Present
Present perfect
Present
We don’t know when Saul drank it.
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What are verb tenses?Past and past perfect
The past tense expresses an action or a state of being that started and ended in the past.
The scouts hiked all morning.
Past
Present
Present Perfect
Past
Present- - - ->
What are verb tenses?Past and past perfect
The past perfect tense
• is usually formed with had plus the past participle
• expresses an action or a state of being that ended before another past action or state of being
The scouts had hiked five miles before they stopped for lunch.
Past
Present
Present Perfect
Past
Present
Past Perfect- - - ->- - - ->
What are verb tenses?Future and future perfect
The future tense
• is usually formed with will or shall plus the base form
• expresses an action that will occur or a state of being that will exist
The class will tour the Indian ruins.
Future
Present
Present Perfect
Future
Present- - - ->
What are verb tenses?Future and future perfect
The future perfect tense
• is usually formed with will have or shall have plus the past participle
• expresses an action or a state of being that will end before another future action or state of being
By the end of the trip, the class will have toured three ruins.
Future
Present
Present Perfect
Future
Future Perfect
Present- - - -> - - - ->
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Change the tense of the boldface verb in each sentence to the tense in parentheses.
1. Miguel makes the photo larger. (Change to past.)
2. The picnic took place on Sunday. (Change to future.)
3. The boys ran three miles in one hour. (Change to past perfect.)
4. By then, Aunt Nell had arrived. (Change to future perfect.)
5. Cynthia had played the violin beautifully. (Change to present.)
On Your Own
What are verb tenses?
Consistency of tense
Do not change from one tense to another without a good reason.
To describe events that occur in the same time period, use verbs in the same tense.
When we went to the movies, we bought popcorn.
When we go to the movies, we buy popcorn.
past tense past tense
present tense present tense
Consistency of tense
For events that occur in different time periods, use verbs of different tenses to show the order of events.
Lisa plays basketball now, but last year she was on the volleyball team.
present tense past tense
Lisa’s basketball playing is occurring in the present. Her volleyball playing happened in the past.
Consistency of tense
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On Your Own
Rewrite the paragraph in the past tense. Change verb forms to make the tenses consistent.
(1) Lightning struck our house, and I run straight for cover. (2) “Oh, no!” I exclaim. (3) The electricity was out! (4) My parents get out the flashlights, and we played a game. (5) The stove and microwave do not work, so we have a cold supper in the living room. (6) In the morning, we are all happy. (7) The sun shone and our electricity is back on.
Review A
Change the tense of each boldface verb to the tense given in parentheses.
1. The children wear their seatbelts. (past perfect)
2. The bell in the clock tower rang. (present)
3. My family will move to Seattle. (present perfect)
4. With confidence, Sara begins the quiz. (past)
5. We sent the packages by airmail. (future)
Review B
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Rewrite the paragraph in the past tense. Change verb forms to make the tenses consistent.
(1) I travel to Denver and visited my grandparents. (2) Grandpa gave me a big hug when I get off the train. (3) Then we all go to their house for dinner. (4) The very next morning Grandma takes me downtown and we shopped for books and shoes. (5) Then she and I meet up with Grandpa and went to the museum.
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