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NAMA : PURWANTO
KELAS : 1A SANITASI
Tenses are very important and fundamental when studying English. Tenses are generally used
to form a sentence in English based on the time the incident took place. In other words, tenses
have a very close relationship with the timing of an event. An event or event can take place in the
past or the past, present or the present and in the future or the future.
A verb-based method used to indicate the time, and sometimes the countinuation or
copleteness, of action or state in relaction to the time of speaking.
1. We cannot talk of tenses whithour considering two componets of many english tenses : time
and aspect in simple terms...
2. Time expresses
3. Simple present
Simple Present Used to state daily activities (daily activity). Used to state general truths.
Used to state general truth (general truth).
4. Simple Past
Used to express habits that are carried out in the past. Used to express activities that occurred
in the past with a clear time description.
Subject + Verb- 2 + Object
Subject + be (was/were) + Complement
Example:
They visited Louvre Museum 2 years ago. (Mereka mengunjungi Museum Louvre 2 tahun
yang lalu)
Beniqno was a singer 10 years ago. (Beniqno adalah seorang penyanyi 10 tahun yang lalu)
5. Aspect
The progressive aspect (or continuing aspect as it's sometimes called) is the aspect of a
verb that expresses an ongoing action.
"Progressive aspect" is the collective term for verbs (in the past tense, present tense,
or future tense) in a progressive tense.