http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aFootball+tag%3aPresent+tenses+tag%3aVerbsSearch results for 'tag:Football tag:Present tenses tag:Verbs' matching tags 'Football', 'Present tenses', and 'Verbs'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/NeedHelpOverHere/gzvnp/post.htm#527083Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:08:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:527083mr wordy1 Well had is the past tense of the verb have but I think you re asking specifically about its use as an auxiliary to form the past perfect tense of other verbs I played simple past tense I have played present perfect tense I had played past perfect or pluperfect tense So even though have on its own is present tense it forms a past tense with other verbs If you do a Google search for these tense names then you will find tons of information on their uses See for example http www englishpage com verbpage pastperfect html this page describes the past perfect all the other tenses are linked down the left hand side I have played football yesterday isn t right have played football has the general sense of played football on one or more unspecified occasions in the past and it doesn t go with yesterday which is a specific occasion Instead you would say I played football yesterday 2 Never can be used with a variety of different tenses depending on when the thing in question wasn t isn t done or didn t doesn t happen A couple of examples You never told me that you loved me means that you didn t tell me in the past but you might tell me now or in the future You never tell me that you love me means that you didn t tell me in the past and you don t tell me now In other words the absence of telling continues up to and including the present It s not possible to use the present tense with never before so I never do that before is wrong It should be I never did that before or I have never done that before http://www.englishforums.com/English/DifferenceBetweenPastContinuous-TenseSimple/dvwzm/post.htm#272624Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:58:52 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:272624pieanne Voltaire101 wrote I can differe make the difference between the present continuous tense and the simple present tense The difference is The simple present tense is used for a repeated or habitual action that happens always or often or usually In these cases you ll have an adverb or a complement that tells you you have to use it Or you use it to express truths that cannot be changed water boils at 100 The present continuous tense is used for an action that is still continuing now Rather an action that is happening right now No continuing for the present continuous tense but I can t differe make the difference between the past continuous tense and the simple past tense When we use the past continuous tense we use it as these sentences 1 The teacher was giving us a lesson 2 A year ago I was working in London And we use the simple past tense as these sentences 1 The thief picked his pocket 2 I passed the river yesterday There is no context to all of these sentences and context gives you the hint for the tense you have to use We can also use the simple past tense with the past continuous tense as these sentences 1 The teacher was giving us a lesson when a little dog walked into the room 2 While we were having supper all the lights went out 3 All the lights went out while we were having supper 4 Harry did his homework while the other boys were playing football ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Ok what is the problem If I say 1 The teacher gave us a lesson when a little dog walked into the room Looks as if the teacher gave you a lesson during the very short time it took the little dog to walk into the room 10 seconds 2 While we had supper all the lights went out 3 All the lights went out while we had supper 4 Hrry did his homework while the other boys played football When to use the simple past tense and when to use the present cotinuous tense http://www.englishforums.com/English/ClarificationNeededTensePast-Participles/phgd/post.htmTue, 22 Feb 2005 17:18:38 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:75823edwardThe sentence your body is relaxed is is present tense of the verb to be right And is relaxed the past participle Also the sentence the restaurant staff played football against the customers what type of words are restaurant and staff Staff is a noun right And restaurant is an adverb or what Please can you help clarify Thankshttp://www.englishforums.com/English/TenselessModals/3/pzvd/Post.htm#75211Sun, 20 Feb 2005 07:55:26 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:75211just the truth1a That s not the man I married these days he will sit in front of the telly for hours watching football 1b At the beginning of our relationship he would write some romantic letters for me he would send me flowers every day 3a I can swim the distance of 400m in 90 seconds 3b As a teenager I could swim the distance of 400m in 90 seconds JTT Korin please go to the Can Could Will Would thread for a discussion on these examples You are more than welcome to move them there if you d like Korin examples 2a I m afraid we have to hail a cab the engine won t start 2b I got into the car but the engine wouldn t start so I had to hail a cab As you can see within the verb groups contaning modals it is only the modals that are marked for the category of tense Hence the relationship between 1a will 1b would 2a will not 2b would not etc seems that of tense JTT It does seems that way doesn t it Korin But what of the millions upon millions of other sentences like 1 She might go OR 2 You should take an aspirin OR 3 They would do that OR 4 I could go to the library Are these also marked for the category of tense If so and because all are marked by past tense modals we have a contradiction that goes deep for none of the meanings in 1 2 3 or 4 are past tense or past time Let s look more closely at your examples 2a I m afraid we have to hail a cab the engine won t start 2b I got into the car but the engine wouldn t start so I had to hail a cab For the sake of this argument ie this context I m going to assume that 2a and 2b refer to the same incident Number 2b is a report of the incident that occured in 2a Since the backshifting that occurs in indirect reported speech doesn t necessarily convey a past meaning this wouldn t is not reflective of a past situation It is merely reflective of a reporting situation Take it a step further and this becomes clear Bill to Bonnie his date I m afraid we have to hail a cab the engine won t start Bonnie Okay let s get out of here takes a taxi and drops B at home Bill reporting to his father I got into the car but the engine wouldn t start so I had to hail a cab Father Let s go back and get the car Bill I tell you Dad it won t start The condition of the car as expressed by this one person Bill is that the car won t start It is merely the modal emotive feeling of this person It doesn t necessarily speak to the actual truth of the situation It s merely Bill s opinion Bill can according to the REAL rules governing reported speech choose either a or a Bill tried the car it won t start Phones his father Hi Dad it s me The car won t start I triED everything and it won t start or I ve triED for BrE speakers Now remember Bill is away from the car the attempts at starting it have finished yet he can use won t This ability to shift back and forth between and points to this not being a REAL past tense That English allows a singular modal to operate in past tense time present tense time and future tense time situations clearly indicates that these modals are tenseless http://www.englishforums.com/English/PresentTensePastTense/nvmh/post.htm#65236Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:15:17 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:65236klavierMrM All are incorrect verb tenses Jack The simple present tense is NOT used for events which occur at the moment of speaking for now we use the present continuous I have a book that says that it s possible to use the simple present at the moment of speaking for ex when a commentator is reporting a football game live Beckam kicks the ball and scores