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All Tenses Discussions:: PRESENT SIMPLE (DO - DOES in Questions and Negatives Sentences)
All Tenses Discussions:: PRESENT SIMPLE (DO - DOES in Questions and Negatives Sentences)
What do you think people in your family are doing at this time of day?
Talk about an activity that has a link to the present and may continue in the future
PAST SIMPLE (DID in questions and negatives sentences adds ed to regular verbs)
When was the first time you flew in a plane? How did you feel then?
Where did you go for your last holiday? Did you enjoy it? What was the weather like?
Talk about an activity in the past talk about the background of a story
Was the sun shining when you got up this morning? If not, what was the weather like?
Where did you go yesterday? What were people doing there when you arrived?
Had anybody cooked dinner for you when you arrived home last night?
Had it been raining during the night when you woke up this morning? How do you know?
Will the world be better in 50 years time? Why do you think so?
What will you have achieved before the time you retire?
How many hours will you have worked at the end of this week?
Rarely used in conversation adds the notion of activity to the previous tense
What will you have been doing before you go to bed tomorrow?
PRESENT TENSES
I usually get up a 7. Im wearing a blue T- Ive never been to Ive been learning
shirt today America. English for 5 years
PAST TENSES
I got up a 9 yesterday. People were having I had already had It had been raining all
lunch when I got to breakfast when you night and the streets
the office. called. were flooded.
FUTURE TENSES
I will never learn Tomorrow at 5, I will By the end of the Before I go to bed
maths ever again. be finishing work. week, I will have tomorrow night, I will
worked 40 hours. have been working
hard and I will be
tired.