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Simple and Perfect Tenses
Simple and Perfect Tenses
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Short recap:
What was the previous topic?
Active Voice Passive Voice
Differentiate Active and Passive Voice
ACTIVE PASSIVE
• If the subject is one being
• VOICE
If the subject is the VOICE
doer of the action. acted upon by the verb.
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Tense
specific time.
Hasis used when the subject
Examples: They have raisedthirty thousand is singular, while haveis for
pesos for their charitable institution. plural subjects.
The past participle form is
● The subject is theyand it is plural, so the verb used to form the perfect
havewas used. tenses of the verb.
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Present
FUNCTION
Perfect
We use the present perfect tense to mention something
that happened in the past but do not want to state a
Form
has/have + past participle
Tense
specific time.
Hasis used when the subject
Example: Gianna has madelots of money as an is singular, while haveis for
entrepreneur plural subjects.
The past participle form is
● Gianna is singular so haswas used in the used to form the perfect
sentence. tenses of the verb.
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Past
FUNCTION
Perfect
Tense
We use the past perfect tense to talk about a past event or
situation that occurred before a particular time in the
Form
had + past participle
past. Note that the other action which occurred after the
first action should be in
simple past form.
Tense
time in the future.
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Historical Present Tense
Is the use of a verb in journalistic context where a writer
uses the present tense to describe an action or event that
has already happened.
Example: Duterte wins election
The verb winsis in present tense, but Duterte had already
won by the time this headline was used.
Example: Rallyists pray for World Peace.
The rallyists had finished their prayer rally before it was
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reported in newspapers.
Activity: Let’s assess
what
Constructyou’ve learn!
5 news headlines with the
use of historical present tense. Your
headline should be about the recent
events that happened in the past
week. It can be local, national, and
international. Pass your work in our
Google Classroom.
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Evaluation
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