Tense in Short

Lesson 3

#Basic Grammar

Tense in Short

As we already know the sentence formation as S + V+ O, Now we need to remember the things while writing or speaking English.

• For Present Tense or for those sentences which happen everyday and are universal truth, for such sentences we need to look at the subjects, if the subject is 3rd person singular number then with the verb we have to add -s/-es

Like He plays cricket.

• If you find the helping verbs like am/is/are in present and was/ were in past then with the verbs we have to add "-ing". 

Like: He is playing cricket.

He was playing football.

•  If you find the helping verbs like have/has in present and had in past then we have to use 3rd form of the verbs. 

Like: He has gone to school.

I had eaten tandoori. 

•  If you find the helping/modal verbs like can/shall/ought/may/will/could/would/might then we always have to use 1st form of the verbs.

Like: He will help me. 

 Geeta may do that.

**There are exceptions to the above said points which we will discuss in voice change and in other chapters. Lets just remember these points to have a n idea on grammar so that we do less mistakes.