1. TENSES
SIMPLE TENSES
PERFECT TENSES

2. 1 What are our goals?
OBJECTIVES
Use the present, past, and future
tenses of verbs correctly.
Demonstrate the proper use of
the perfect and progressive
tenses.

3. 2 Why study TENSES?
VERB TENSE
OBJECTIVES
The VERB TENSE helps
identify the time of an
action or state of being.

4. What are the different
3 TENSES?
OBJECTIVES
PAST PRESENT FUTURE

5. What are the different
4 PERFECT TENSES?
OBJECTIVES
PRESENT PERFECT
PAST PERFECT
FUTURE PERFECT

6. What are the different
5 PROGRESSIVE TENSES?
OBJECTIVES
PRESENT PROGRESSIVE
PAST PROGRESSIVE
FUTURE PROGRESSIVE

7. 6 What are the different PERFECT
PROGRESSIVE TENSES?
PRESENT PERFECT
OBJECTIVES
PROGRESSIVE
PAST PERFECT
PROGRESSIVE
FUTURE PERFECT
PROGRESSIVE

8. When do we use the
7 PRESENT TENSE?
PRESENT TENSE
OBJECTIVES
When we want to express a
general truth or an action that is
occurring now.
When we want to describe an
action that occurs regularly or
habitually.

9. EXAMPLES
PRESENT TENSE
OBJECTIVES
Ginny answers her e-mail each
hour.
My laser printer needs a new
cartridge.
The boss requests timesheets on
Friday.

10. When do we use the
8 PAST TENSE?
OBJECTIVES
PAST TENSE
When we want to express
an action or condition that
was started and completed
in the past.

11. EXAMPLES
OBJECTIVES
PAST TENSE
We requested a site license for
the software.
Sandra discussed the network
problem with Eric.
Gary wrote to the manufacturer
about the printer problem.

12. When do we use the
9 FUTURE TENSE?
OBJECTIVES
PAST TENSE
When we want to express
an action or condition that
will occur in the future.

13. EXAMPLES
FUTURE TENSE
OBJECTIVES
She will design our new Web
page.
The programmer will send the
software this afternoon.
We shall all obey the law.

14. When do we use the
10 PRESENT PERFECT TENSE?
OBJECTIVES
PRESENT PERFECT
When we want to show that an
action or condition that started
in the past has just been
completed or continues to take
place into the present.

15. What will guide us in identifying
the PRESENT PERFECT TENSE?
OBJECTIVES
PRESENT PERFECT
This tense requires the
use of has or have with
the past participle of
the verb.

16. EXAMPLES
OBJECTIVES
PRESENT PERFECT
Our company has requested
temporary programmers several
times.
We have found the new software
easy to use.

17. When do we use the
11 PAST PERFECT TENSE?
OBJECTIVES
PAST PERFECT
When we want to express
that one action or
condition began and was
completed before another
action in the past started.

18. What will guide us in identifying
the PAST PERFECT TENSE?
OBJECTIVES
PAST PERFECT
This tense requires the
use of had with the
past participle of the
verb.

19. EXAMPLES
OBJECTIVES
PAST PERFECT
He had solved the network
problem before we arrived for
work.
By the time we evaluated the
software, the manufacturer had
released a new version.

20. When do we use the
12 FUTURE PERFECT TENSE?
OBJECTIVES
FUTURE PERFECT
When we want to

21. What will guide us in identifying
the FUTURE PERFECT TENSE?
OBJECTIVES
FUTURE PERFECT
This tense requires the
use of shall have or will
have before the past
participle of the verb.

22. EXAMPLES
OBJECTIVES
FUTURE PERFECT
I will have updated the
software before next Friday.
By next summer, this
software version will have
been updated.

23. 13 EXERCISES
OBJECTIVES
I __________ recently
gone to the mall.
Eric __________ already
paid the bill.

24. EXERCISES
OBJECTIVES
He __________ in Xavier
School for ten years.
Noel __________ in the
company since 1998.

25. EXERCISES
OBJECTIVES
We __________ always
believed in you.
Mark __________ before
he went to school.

26. EXERCISES
OBJECTIVES
We __________ previously
seen the film.
__________ you ever been
to France?

27. EXERCISES
OBJECTIVES
I took a bath after I
__________ my room.
The rain __________ when
I stepped out of the house.