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 |

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.