Basic English Grammar

Introduction To Tenses In English

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Introduction To Tenses

Tenses are probably the most important in the English language. In this blog, you are going to learn

  • Why Tenses Are Important?
  • Why Tenses Are Important?
  • What Is A Tense?|ٹینس یا زمانہ کیا ہے؟
  • How Many Tenses Are There?|ٹینس کتنے ہیں
  • Aspects Of  These Tenses

Why Tenses Are Important

Almost every sentence that we speak is actually structured using some rules. In order to learn these basic rules, we have to learn tenses. In order to make sentences, write paragraphs, and speak English, we have to express the ideas using the right form of tenses.

During our student life, we have to take plenty of exams. The written part of those exams becomes a lot easier if we learn tenses. After learning tenses, we do not need to cram books. We simply take the concept and write them on paper using that knowledge of tenses.

This is not only limited to our student life. We often need these basic rules to ace the job test.

Strategies For Improving Tenses

We have been learning tenses since our school time but our tenses are still weak. The problem is, we just cram tenses to get good marks. We never use the right strategy to master tenses. Following are some strategies that we need to follow in order to master tenses.

Learn The Rules First

In order to improve your tenses, you must learn the rules first. While learning tenses, these things must be kept in mind.

  • Don’t try to learn the rules overnight. Try to break them down into three sections- Present Tenses, Past Tense, And Future Tense
  • These three tenses must be broken down into aspects- Indefinite, Continuous, Perfect, And Perfect Continuous. Take them one at a time.
  • Take tenses as a game. Try to understand the patterns.
  • Tenses also have exceptions. Try to learn those exceptions in order to master tenses.

Practice Tenses By Sentence-Building

While learning tenses, try to put each tense into practice. The best way to practice tenses is to make sentences. For each tense, try to make as many sentences as you can

What Is A Tense?|ٹینس یا زمانہ کیا ہے؟

We May define Tense as a verb based method used to indicate the time, continuation, or completeness of an action or state. The words tense originates from Latin word tempus(Time)

ٹینس یا زمانہ ایک ایسا طریقہ ہے جسے  کسی بھی کام یا حالت کا وقت ، اس کا جاری ہونے یا تکمیل کے بارے بتانے کیلئے استعمال کیا جاتا ہےلفظ ٹینس لاطینی زبان کے لفظ ٹیمپس سے ماخوز ہے جس کے معنی  ہیں وقت۔

How Many Tenses Are There?|ٹینس کتنے ہیں

There are three main tenses in the English language:

  • Present Tense
  • Past Tense
  • Future Tense

انگلش زبان میں تین ٹینس یعنی زمانہ ہیں

  • زمانہ حال
  • زمانہ ماضی
  • زمانہ مستقبل

Aspects Of  These Tenses

Each of these tenses can take four aspects:

  • Indefinite
  • Continuous
  • Perfect
  • Perfect Continuous

ان چار زمانوں میں سے ہر زمانہ مزید چار پہلو لے سکتا ہے

  • مطلق
  • جاری
  • مکمل
  • مکمل جاری

12 Tenses In English Language

On the basis of these aspects, we may further classify these three main tenses into 12 tenses.

ان پہلوؤں کی بنیاد پہ ہم ہر ٹینس کو مزید 12 ٹینسز میں تقسیم کر سکتے ہیں

Tense Indefinite Continuous Perfect Perfect Continuous
Present Present Indefinite Tense

فعل حال مطلق

Present Continuous Tense

فعل حال جاری

Present Perfect Tense

فعل حال مکمل

Present Perfect Continuous Tense

فعل حال مکمل جاری

Past Past Indefinite Tense

فعل ماضی مطلق

Past Continuous Tense

فعل ماضی جاری

Past Perfect Tense

فعل ماضی مکمل

Past Perfect Continuous Tense

فعل ماضی مکمل جاری

Future Future Indefinite Tense

فعل مسقبل مطلق

Future Continuous Tense

فعل مستقبل جاری

Future Perfect Tense

فعل مستقبل مکمل

Future Perfect Continuous Tense

فعل مستقبل مکمل جاری

Introduction To Tenses In English

Present Tense

As the name suggests, this tense is used to tell about actions with relation to the present.

  • Present Indefinite Tense is used to describe an action that happens on regular basis.
  • Present continuous tense is used to tell about an ongoing action in the present time.
  • Present Perfect Tense is used to tell about ab action that has been completed in the near past.
  • Present Perfect Continuous Tense is used to tell about an ongoing action in the present but the time reference is also mentioned in this tense.

Past Tense

  • Past Indefinite Tense is used to describe an action that happened in the past.
  • Past continuous tense is used to tell about an ongoing action in the past time.
  • Past Perfect Tense is used to tell about ab action that was completed in the past.
  • Past Perfect Continuous Tense is used to tell about an ongoing action in the past but the time reference is also mentioned in this tense.

Future Tense

  • Future Indefinite Tense is used to describe an action that will happen in the future.
  • Future continuous tense is used to tell about an action that will be ongoing in the future.
  • Future Perfect Tense is used to tell about ab action that will be completed in the future.
  • Future Perfect Continuous Tense is used to tell about an ongoing action in the future but the time reference is also mentioned in this tense.

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