Grammar Tenses

TASK ALLOTTED

Situation handling

Assumption: The employees are not well versed in English and are finding tenses particularly difficult, though they have a general idea of what verbs are.

System followed for solution:

Three part system:

Information Access and Details

CYU – Check your understanding and answer additional questions.

MCQ, Tense Changing and Sentence Correction Tests to complete the session

SYLLABUS

Definition of Tenses

Describing the parts of speech used to change Tenses

Why do we need Tenses?

Types of Tenses (main)

Specific ways to use verbs to change the Tense

Examples

TENSES

Tenses are the way in which the verb changes itself to state the time of the action and the state of the action itself. Thus tenses show the situation of the action and the time of action.

Note: All verbs are not similar in their tenses. For example – while talk becomes talked in the past tense and will talk in the future tense, buy is bought in the past tense and is will buy in the future tense.

PARTS OF SPEECH

The parts of speech are:

Interjection

Verb

Adverb

Noun

Conjunction

Adjective

Pronoun

Preposition

Articles

Of these parts of speech the verb is used to change the tense of sentences.

When we say the “Verb” we mean the verb group which use the words prepositions and in the continuous tense the –ing .(–ing when used refers to the non completion of the action).

WHY DO WE NEED TENSES

Tenses help in:

Finding the situation of the action

I am eating

Finding the time of the action

I was asleep

Indicating the sequence of actions

I woke up late so I can’t have breakfast or I will be late for work.