Q. What is tense?
Ans. Tense is the form of a verb that indicates the time of an action or state.
Q. How many main types of tenses are there in English?
Ans. There are three main types: Present Tense, Past Tense and Future Tense.
Q. What is the Simple Present Tense used for?
Ans. It is used for habits, routines and general truths. Example: She reads every day.
Q. What is the structure of the Simple Present Tense?
Ans. Subject + base verb (add s/es with he, she, it or a singular subject) + object. Example: He plays cricket.
Q. What is the Present Continuous Tense?
Ans. It describes an action happening now. Structure: Subject + am/is/are + verb-ing. Example: They are studying.
Q. What is the Present Perfect Tense?
Ans. It describes an action completed with relevance to the present. Structure: Subject + has/have + past participle.
Q. What is the Present Perfect Continuous Tense?
Ans. It describes an action that began in the past and continues up to the present. Structure: Subject + has/have been + verb-ing.
Q. What is the Simple Past Tense?
Ans. It describes an action completed in the past. Example: I visited Delhi yesterday.
Q. What is the Past Continuous Tense?
Ans. It describes an action that was in progress at a particular time in the past. Example: She was cooking.
Q. What is the Past Perfect Tense?
Ans. It describes an action completed before another past action. Structure: Subject + had + past participle.
Q. What is the Past Perfect Continuous Tense?
Ans. It describes an action that had continued for some time before a past point or event. Structure: Subject + had been + verb-ing.
Q. What is the Simple Future Tense?
Ans. It describes an action that will happen in the future. Example: I will call you tomorrow.
Q. What is the Future Continuous Tense?
Ans. It describes an action that will be in progress at a particular time in the future. Example: I will be working at noon.
Q. What is the Future Perfect Tense?
Ans. It describes an action that will be completed before a specified future time. Structure: Subject + will have + past participle.
Q. What is the Future Perfect Continuous Tense?
Ans. It describes an action that will have continued for a duration by a specified future time. Structure: Subject + will have been + verb-ing.
Q. Which helping verbs are commonly used in the Present Continuous Tense?
Ans. Am, is and are are used according to the subject.
Q. Which helping verb is used in the Past Perfect Tense?
Ans. Had is used with all subjects in the Past Perfect Tense.
Q. Change into Simple Past: She writes a letter.
Ans. She wrote a letter.
Q. Change into Simple Future: They play football.
Ans. They will play football.
Q. Identify the tense: He has been studying for two hours.
Ans. Present Perfect Continuous Tense.