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Tense
Tense is the concept of time which may be present, past or future.
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Example:
- I eat rice. (Present)
- I ate rice. (Past)
- I will eat rice. (Future)
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Types of Tense:
The concept of time (tense) can be differentiated into three categories.

The present / simple present tense.

The past.

The future.

And all of these tense are differentiated into the following four categories.

Indefinite Tense

Continuous Tense

Perfect Tense

Perfect Continuous Tense

Present Indefinite Tense

Present indefinite tense denotes an action in the present time or habitual truth or
eternal truth.
Present Indefinite
Tense
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Structure:
Subject + Main Verb + Object.

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Example:
I eat rice.
I go to school.
He goes to school every day.
You read a book.
He goes to bed at ten pm every day.
The sun rises in the East.
Water freezes at 0 centigrade.
Note - Subject third person singular number (he, she, it, , , )
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Present Continuous Tense

Present continuous tense is used when an action is continued or going to be continued in
near future.
present continuous tense
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Structure:
Subject + be verb (number person ) + verb + ing + object.
Example:
I am eating rice.
I am going to school.
He is going to school.
/ You are reading book.
I am going to Dhaka tonight. (Near future)
Are you coming to the meeting this afternoon? (Near
future)
Note - I am He, She, it third person singular number is
We, you, they Plural subject are

Present Perfect Tense

Present perfect tense is used when the work has been done but its effect lasts.
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perfect tense

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Structure:
Subject + have/has + past participle + object.
Example:
- I have eaten rice.
- I have gone to school.
- He has gone to school.
- I have not eaten rice.
- / They have done the work.
- He/she has studied for hours.
- - They have just played football.
- He has just played football.
Note - Subject third person singular number (he, she, it , , )
has I, we, you, they plural subject have

Present Perfect Continuous Tense

The present perfect continuous tense is used for an action which began at some time in the
past and is still continuing.
Present perfect continuous tense
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Structure:
Subject + has been/have been + main verb + ing + since/from/for + object.
Example:
- I have been doing this work for two days.
- He has been reading for two hours. ( )
- He has been reading since mourning.
- He/She has been reading in this school for three years.
- He has been living here from his boyhood.
- Fahim has been suffering from fever since sunday
last.
Note - Subject third person singular number (he, she, it , , )
has been I, we, you, they plural subject have been

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Note - since point of time (past tense)

since or from
tense from
, from
Period of time for

Past Indefinite Tense

Past Indefinite Tense is used to denote an action completed in the past or a past habit and
result is not lasted.
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Indefinite Tense
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Structure:
Subject + past form of main verb + object.
Example:
- / I ate rice.
- / I went to school.
- / He went to school.
- / /- You did the work.
- He spent his boyhood in London.
- Luna sang a song.
- He played football.
Note - Past indefinite tense sentence main verb be verb
main verb

Past Continuous Tense

Past continuous tense is used when the action was continued for some time in the past.
past continuous tense
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Structure:
Subject + was/were + main verb + ing + object.

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Example:
- / I was eating rice.
- / He was going to school.
- / They were playing football.
- He was going to Dhaka last evening.
- I was singing song alone.
Note - subject first person and third person singular number was we, you, they
plural number were

Past Perfect Tense

Past perfect tense is used in the former action between two completed actions of the past;
simple past is used in the later action.
Past perfect tense
simple past tense
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Structure:
1st subject + had + verb past participle + 2nd subject + verb past form +2nd object.
Example:
- He had come home before I ate rice.
- He had died before I went to school.
- They had reached the station before the bell rang.
- The patient had died before the doctor came.
- The doctor had come before the patient died.
- I had shut the door before I got into bed.

Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Past perfect continuous tense is used for an action that begun before a certain point in the
past and continued up to that time.
Past
perfect continuous tense
Past perfect continuous tense

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Structure:
1st subject + had been + main verb + ing + 1st object + 2nd subject + verb past form +
2nd object.
Example:
- I had been eating rice when he came.
- we were playing before the bell rang.
- He had been reading book when
I went to met with him/her.
- your
mother had been waiting for you when you went to your friends home.
I had been sleeping when he saw the game.

Future Indefinite Tense

Future indefinite tense is used when an action will be done or will happen in future.
Future indefinite tense
:
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Structure:
Subject + shall/will + verb + object

Example:
- - I will/shall do the work.
- - They will/shall do the work.
- ()- I shall go to the school.
- ()- He will go to the school.
- () They will go to the market.
Note - 1st person shall will

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Future Continuous Tense

Future continuous tense is used when an action is thought to be going on in the future.

Future continuous tense

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Structure:
Subject + shall be/will be + main verb + ing + object.
Example: - I shall be reading the book.
- - I shall be singing the song.
- - They will be playing football.
- - He will be doing the work.
- / - they will be going to school.
- - He will be going to office.

Future Perfect Tense

Future perfect tense is used to indicate the completion of an action by a certain time in
the future.

Future perfect tense
Future perfect tense
simple present tense
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Future perfect tense
Structure:
1st subject + shall have/will have + verb past participle + 1st object + before + 2nd
subject + main verb + 2nd object.
Example:
- - I shall have done the work before my father
comes.
- I shall have finished reading the book by 4. P. m.
- - I shall have sang a song before you leave.
- I shall have finished my lesson before they come.

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Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Future perfect tense is used when an action will have been continuing by a certain future
time.

future perfect tense

future perfect tense

simple present tense
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Structure:
Subject 1st subject + shall have been/will have been + main verb + ing + 1st object +
2nd subject + main verb + 2nd object.
Example:
- - we shall have been waiting for
you until you come back.
- - I shall have been doing the work before my father
comes.
- - I shall have been playing before they come.
- he will have been studying at
Dhaka university for four years before he gets degree.