Topic 6

i)

Tenses

Simple Present Tense

ii)

used to refer a fact or general truth (e.g: Humans are mammals.)

a habitual action which is performed everyday (e.g: He brushes teeth every day.)
a present state of condition (e.g: She feels tired.)
Simple Past Tense

a completed action in the past (Siti went to cinema last night.)

a completed condition in the past (She had fever a few days ago.)
the action of someone/something that is no longer living (His late grandpa liked
camping.)

iii)

Simple Future Tense

an event which has possibility of happening in the future (Mary will complain to

the headmaster tomorrow.)

an event in the future which is connected to the present. (Mary is dissatisfied and
she is going to complain to the headmaster tomorrow.)

iv)

Present continuous tense

an event which begin in the near past and is still in progress (His cat is

sleeping on his new carpet.)

a longer period of time where the action is general. (She is trying to find
more sponsors.)

v)

Past Continuous Tense

an action at a specific point of time in the past (John was studying for his
exams at 8pm last night.)

vi)

Future Continuous Tense

an action at specific point of time in the future (He will be giving speech in
the school hall tomorrow morning.)

viii)

Present Perfect Tense

an event which is happened before but is viewed in the present. (Janet

has been to London before.)

a repetition of event before now. (The person plays badminton repeatedly

from a time in the past until now.)

an event which began in indefinite time in the past which continuous till
now. (Ranjit and Adam have been friends since young.)

x)

Present Perfect Continuous Tense

duration of event which started in the past and is still continuing in the
present (The lady started her work in the past and is still ongoing)

xi)

Past Perfect Continuous Tense

the duration of an event which started and was still continuing at one point
in the past. (The tribes had been fighting a futile war for the past 10 years)

xiii)

Future Perfect Continuous Tense

an event which will be completed before another action or time in the
future. (By next year, she will have been researching on her thesis for 2
years.)