REFERENCES

              http://harmansusanto.tripod.com/tenses.html

             http://student.eepis-its.edu/~praszz/Tenses.html

          

Rahmawati, Stefhani Ridha. 2010. Panduan Lengkap Menguasai ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Jakarta: Kawan Pustaka.

EXAMPLE SENTENCES TENSES

          1.     Present Tense

         (+)He plays football every morning.

          2.    Past Tenses

         (-) I saw not a good film last night.

          3.    Past Continuous Tense

         (+)They were talking about sport when I met him.

          4.    Future Tense

         (?) Will he go to America next month?

          5.    Past Future Tense 

         (-)They wouldn’t buy a home the previous day.

EXAMPLE SENTENCES OF TENSES

Present Tense:

1.   Simple Present Tense (form : S +Verb1 + O)

o   (+) You buy a new T-shirt

o   (-) You don’t buy a new T-shirt

o   (?) Do you buy a new T-shirt?

Yes, I do
No, I don’t

o   (?) What do you buy? A new T-shirt

o   (+) Angel feeds her daughter

o   (-) Angel doesn’t feed her daughter

o   (?) Does Angel feed her daughter?

Yes, she does
No, she doesn’t

o   (?) what does Angel do? She feeds her daughter

  2.   Simple Present Continous Tense (Form : S + be + Verb(+ing)+ O + now/at the moment) :

o   (+) Carol is babysitting right now

o   (-) Carol isn’t babysitting right now

o   (?) Is Carol babysitting right now?
Yes, she is
No,she isn’t

o   (?) Who is babysitting right now? Carol is babysitting right now

o   (+) My father is cleaning his car at this moment

o   (-) My father is not cleaning his car at this moment

o   (?) Is your father cleaning his car at this moment?

Yes, he is
No, he is not

o   (?) Who is cleaning his car at the moment? My father is cleaning his car at the moment

3.   Present Perfect Tense (S + have/has + V3 + O+Since/for + Adv. of Time)

o   (+) Sue has already done her homework

o   (-) Sue hasn’t done her homework yet

o   (?) Has Sue done done her homework?

Yes,she has
No, she hasn’t

o   (?) Who has already done her homework? Sue has already done her homework

o   (+) I have ever tried bungee jumping

o   (-) I have never tried bungee jumping before

o   (?) Have you ever tried bungee jumping before?

Yes, I have
No, I haven’t

o   (?) What dangerous sports have you ever tried? Bungee jumping

4.   Present Perfect Continous Tense (S+have/has+been+Ving+O+Since/for+Adv. of Time)

o   (+) The nurse has been calling her name three times

o   (-) The nurse hasn’t been calling her name three times

o   (?) Has the nurse been calling her name three times?

Yes, she has
No, she hasn’t

o   (?) How many times has the nurse been calling her name? Three times

  

 Past Tense :

1.   Simple Past Tense (Form : S + Verb2 + Object + Adv. of Time)

o   (+) We saw a movie last night

o   (-) We didn’t see a movie last night

o   (?) Did we see a movie last night?

Yes, we did
No, we did not

o   (?) When did you see a movie? Last night

o   (+) Jane played a kite with her sister yesterday

o   (-) Jane didn’t play a kite with her sister yesterday

o   (?) Did Jane play a kite with her sister yesterday?

Yes, she did
No, she did not

o   (?) With whom did Jane play a kite yesterday? With her sister

2.   Past Continous Tense (Form : S + Verbing + Object + Adv. of Time)

o   (+) She was shopping when it began to rain

o   (-) She wasn’t shopping when it began to rain

o   (?) Was she shopping when it began to rain?

Yes, she was
No, she was not

o   (?)Where was she when it began to rain? In the shopping center

3.   Past Perfect Tense (S + had + V3 + O)

o   (+) She had turned off the stove before she left her house

o   (-) She hadn’t turned off the stove before she left her house

o   (?) Had she turned off the stove before she left her house?

Yes, she had
No, she had not

o   (?) When Had she turned off the stove? before she left her house

4.   Past Perfect Continous Tense (S+had+been+Ving+O+Since/for+Adv. of Time) : 

o   (+) my husband and I had been waiting for 1 hour before the waiter finally served our meals.

o   (-) my husband and I hadn’t been waiting for 1 hour before the waiter finally served our meals.

o   (?) had you been waiting for 1 hour before the waiter finally served your meals?
Yes, we had.
No, we hadn’t

o   (?) how long had you been waiting for before the waiter finally served our meals? for one hour.

  

    Future tense :

1.   Simple Future Tense :

v  (will) (Form : S + will + Verb1 + O + Adv. of time)

o   (+) I will teach french in High School next year

o   (-) I won’t teach french in High School next year

o   (?) will you teach french in High School next year?

Yes, I will

No, I won’t

o   When will you teach french in High School? Next year

v  (be going to) (Form : S + be + going to + Verb1 + O)

o   (+) We are going to the movie after English class

o   (-) We aren’t going to the movie after English class

o   (?) Are we going to the movie after English class?

Yes, we are
No, we are not

o   (?) Where are you going after English class? We are going to the movie

2.   Future Continous Tense (Form : S + will + be + Verbing + O +  Adv. of time) :

     o   (+) In the next 100 years, people will be living in Mars

     o   (-) In the next 100 years, people won’t be living in Mars

     o   (?) Will people be living in Mars in the next 100 years?
               Yes, they’ll
               No, they won’t

     o   (?) Where will people be living in the next 100 years? In Mars

 3.   Future Perfect Tense (Form : S + will + have + Verb3 + O + Adv. of time) :

      o   (+) We’ll have sold our cars by the time we move to Surabaya

      o   (-) We won’t have sold our cars by the time we move to Surabaya

      o   (?) Will you have sold your cars by the time you move to Surabaya?
                Yes, we’ll have sold our cars by by the time we move to Surabaya
                No, we won’t have sold our cars by by the time we move to Surabaya

      o   (?) What will you have sold by the time you move to Surabaya? Our cars

4.   Future Perfect Continous Tense (Form : S + will + have + been + Verbing + O)

      o   (+) Salvo will have been eating his lunch before 2 p.m

          (-) Salvo won’t have been eating his lunch before 2 p.m 

      (?) Will Salvo have been eating his lunch before 2 p.m?
     Yes, he’ll have been eating his lunch before 2 p.m
      No, he won’t have been eating his lunch before 2 p.m

     o   (?) Who will have been eating his lunch before 2 p.m? Salvo will

 

     

 Past Future Tense :

         1.     Past Future Tense (Form : S + should/would + Verb1) :

        o   (+) She would write some letters when you came

        o   (-) They would not promise if they can’t fulfill the promise

        o   (?) Would He go to Himalaya ?

    2.    Past Future Continous Tense (Form: Subject + Should/would + be + verbing) :

         o   (+) He would be traveling

         o   (-) Neo would not be expelling singing beggar

              (?) Would Gunawan be nailing the shoes ?

            

         3.     Future Perfect Tense (Form: Subject + Should/would + have + verb3) :

           o   (+) I hoped that you would have married before you worked here

           o   (-) He would not have dried the dress.

           o   (?) Would not he have married if he had worked here ?

          4.     Past Future Perfect Continous Tense (Form: Subject + should/would + have + been + verbing) :

          o   (+) By last January I should have been working in this office for three year.

          o   (-) I should not have been working in this office for three years by last January

               (?) Would she have been teaching grammar for two months by last Saturday?

A VARIATY OF TENSES

       1.     Simple Present Tense 

       2.    Present Continuous Tense 

       3.    Present Perfect Tense 

       4.    Present Perfect Continuous Tense  

       5.    Simple Future Tense

       6.    Future Continuous Tense

       7.     Future Perfect Tense

       8.    Future Perfect Continuous Tense

       9.    Past Future Tense

      10.  Past Future Continuous Tense

      11.   Past Future Perfect Tense

      12.  Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense

STORY ABOUT TENSES

          Tenses are verb forms that describe the present time in English. The forms of the timereferred to is that any activity / event / events / situations has its own time. This affects theformation of tenses verb aka verb in a sentence. Tenses is very important to understandthe learning of grammar (Grammar),which specifically English, where tense is veryimportant in a sentence either in the form of oral and written. Broadly speaking, these aretense times in three series, namely: Past (the past), Now (the present), and Future (future needs).

         Present Tense in English or Simple Present Tense is used to declare the event orevents, activities, activity and so is the case today. Present Tense is also used toexpress a fact, or something that happens over and over again the days of NOW. Remember, PRESENT means it is now, now.