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Re: How to remember tenses?

Goodman — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:25:45 GMT

Huygen,

By reading your post, something tells me that your English level should be beyond the question you just asked, and able to categorize the tenses already.

There are 3 basic tenses: Simple past â present â future

There are past progressive- present progressive- future progressive.

Then there past perfect- present perfect âfuture perfect which is not commonly used.

I am curious, may be I am missing something. Why do you have to memorize the tenses?

We should be able use it according to the sense of time.

You are walking â you are doing something at this minute. So itâs present progressive

I walk 2 miles everyday after work. Simple present, used to reflect a routine.

They were watching TV when you called last night.- Simple past progressive.

The perfect tenses are more complex and you may have to do some reading and studying on your own.

Here is something which may be helpful: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html

Re: have -p.p.

Avangi — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:17:10 GMT

Teleostomi wrote:

"There was no cockroach to have made her ill."

At first I thought "to have made her ill" allows for only the interpretation of "past participle" but could it also be taken as "present participle"?

I'll probably regret having jumped in here, but I don't think it's a participle. If you said, "to make her ill," I'd guess you'd call it something like a present infinitive phrase modifying "cockroach." In that sense, I'd call your example a past perfect infinitive, if there is such a thing. I hope someone has a better name for it.

Present participle might be, "It wasn't the cockroach making her ill." But that would be the same as, "The cockroach was not making her ill," (or "No cockroach was making her ill.") In this case the present participle just happens to be the verb form used in constructing that tense, (past progressive??) as it would be in, "The cockroach is not making her ill" (present progressive??).

Of course "made" is the past participle of "make," but it's used as part of the formula for making various verb tenses. Saying, " 'to have made her ill' is a 'past participle' " is sort of meaningless to me. It uses the past participle - not the present participle.

Re: Frank Sinatra - My Way(present perfect vs. past perfect).

WesternAmerican — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:03:00 GMT

I'm starting to comprehend at long last, Mr. P.
The present progressive indicates an action that started in the past but has an effect on the future. Like:
I've left home. I did it in the past, but I still experience the effects from that action up to this day.

Amazing. This forum is just great. Thank you guys, and thank you too Marius for directing me to those links.

I got another question though:
I've told him many times, but he never listens. <---Present Perfect
I had told him many times, but he never listened. <---Past Perfect

Does it make sense? In the first sentnece, I told him something, but he never listens...that is in the present, he chooses to not accept what I tell him.
The latter sentnece, I told him a couple of times, but he never listened. What I tried to express here is that he chose another way and we parted ways; Or that he has simply died.

Re: Active and passive

Goodman — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:27:52 GMT

Rex wrote:

Un soldat amÃ©ricain a Ã©tÃ© tuÃ© en Iraq hier.

The above is a passive sentence in French.
I would translate the above into English as follows:
An American soldier was killed in Iraq yesterday
OR
Yesterday, an American soldier was killed in Iraq.

I don't think my English version is a passive sentence. If you wrote, a soldier had been killed, it would be incorrect. Because it borders the past perfect tense, as far as I am concerned. You write the past perfect tense to push one action before the other.

How do you translate the French sentence into English?

Hi Rex,

I donât see how your sentences are not written in passive voice. They are as passive as passive can get.

You wrote:

I would translate the above into English as follows:
An American soldier was killed in Iraq yesterday
OR
Yesterday, an American soldier was killed in Iraq.

I don't think my English version is a passive sentence. If you wrote, a soldier had been killed, it would be incorrect. Because it borders the past perfect tense, as far as I am concerned. You write the past perfect tense to push one action before the other.

What is correct or otherwise sometimes can not be based on a one-line context.

Whether it is past perfect passive, present perfect passive, past passive or present progressive passive, a passive voice can not be anything else.

A military Humvee carrying 4 soldiers had been blown up as the vehicle passed through ...

American soldiers have been blown up by RSB .

A soldier was shot by insurgent fire yesterday.

American soldiers are being been killed almost on a daily basis since the war began 4 years ago.

Some may argue that the above sentence should have been in present perfect tense which does look and sound almost logical because they see the word âsinceâ. In fact, âare being killedâ is more correct in my opinion because of the adverbial phrase âon a daily basisâ.

The important thing is, we have to evaluate the complete context, not partially, in order to determine the meaning.

Re: Are ''eaten'' and ''beaten'' being used as adjective in the...?

Yankee — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:04:47 GMT

Don't you understand what people are talking about when they refer to "verb tenses", Jackson? The -ing form of verbs are used in the progressive/continuous 'tenses':

- present progressive
- present perfect progressive
- past perfect progressive
- future progressive
etc.

"I have been sleeping."

"It (the sentence above -- which had been previously referred to) does NOT consist of (the following items, seen as a unit: ) [a subject, the verb 'have' and two adjectives]."

Instead, the sentence "I have been sleeping" consists of [subject + verb]. If you want to be more precise about the word "verb", you can say "the verb 'sleep' in the present perfect progressive". There are no adjectives in the sentence.

How many tenses are there in English language?

Jackson6612 — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:03:33 GMT

I was told that there are twelve tenses in English:

1: Simple Present Tense

2: Present Perfect Tense

3: Present Progressive Tense

4: Present Perfect Progressive Tense

5: Simple Past Tense

6: Past Perfect Tense

7: Past Progressive Tense

8: Past Perfect Progressive Tense

9: Simple Future Tense

10: Future Perfect Tense

11: Future Progressive Tense

12: Future Perfect Progressive Tense

But I read somewhere that total number of tenses in English is six or seven. Is this true?

Re: Present Participle and Past Participle Tenses....

User_gary — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:37:38 GMT

Tanglish wrote:

Hi all,

I can easily indentified the present, past , future tenses, but I don't know anything about Present Participle and Past Participle Tenses. Could anyone explain me with example and when I have to use that tenses????

Thanks!!!!

[I don't understand exactly what you mean]

Here is some basics that might help you.

Verb has four forms :

prsent simple : Break, hold, make, drink, write

Past simple: Broke, held, made, drank, wrote

Past participle: broken, held, made, drunk, written

Present participle: breaking, holding, making, drinking, writing.

Note : sometimes `simple past' and `past participle' has same forms. e.g. held-held, made-made.

As I told you above, Present participle is `ing' form of verbs.

Present participle is used to write `present progressive', `present perfect progressive', `past progressive', `past perfect progressive, `future progressive', `future perfect progressive'.

E.g. I am reading books. [Here `reading' is present participle] [It is present progressive sentence]

I have been playing football for five hours. [Here `playing is present participle, `been' is past participle] [It is present perfect progressive sentence]

Past participle is used to write `perfect tenses' e.g. (Present perfect, present perfect progressive, past perfect, past perfect progressive, future perfect, future perfect progressive)

e.g. I have made this book. [here `made' is past participle] [It is present perfect sentence]

I have been asking questions for 7 hours. [here `been' is past participle, `asking' is present participle] [It is present perfect progressive sentence]

Re: Since / from for different tenses

Goodman — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:43:28 GMT

Yoplain wrote:

Thanks for the links. I've just skimmed through those pages.

So now I guess :

1.My internet hasn't been working since this morning. - correct

2.My internet hasn't been working from this morning. - wrong

3.My internet doesn't work since this morning. - ?

4.My internet doesn't work from this morning. - wrong(?)

5.My internet didn't work since this morning. - ?

6.My internet didn't work from this morning. - correct

(= My internet didn't work from this morning until a certain moment but now it works back again.)

7.My internet isn't working since this morning. - ?

8.My internet isn't working from this morning. - wrong

For number 4, I'm confused because number 6 is correct and number 4 is similar to that one.

Can someone confirm if my guesses are right or wrong?

And can you please answer to my other questions?

Hi Yoplain,

When âsinceâ is used in a sentence, it suggests something has happened over a period of time. This should remind us that present perfect or past perfect tense may be in order, depending on the context. âSinceâ should not be used in the present or present progressive context. Having said that, Iâd offer these answers.

1.My internet hasn't been working since this morning. - correct

2.My internet hasn't been working from this morning. Incorrect

3.My internet doesn't work since this morning. - ? Incorrect

4.My internet doesn't work from this morning. â wrong. Incorrect

5.My internet didn't work since this morning. - ? Incorrect

6.My internet didn't work from this morning. - Incorrect

(= My internet didn't work from this morning until a certain moment but now it works back again.)

7.My internet isn't working since this morning. - ? Incorrect

8.My internet isn't working from this morning. - Incorrect

Re: Poll: The hebrew-english

Ville_maddengurl — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:50:19 GMT

Anonymous wrote:

Especially for Ruslana and Ville:

Ani-I

Ata---you (male singular)

At----you(female singular)

U(like in the word "who")-He

Hi(sounds like "He)-----she

Anahnu-we

Atem-you(plural male)

Aten-you(Plural female)

Em---they(male)

En----they(female)

                                                                    Verbs---To drink

                      Present                                        Past                     Future

               Ani shote- i'm drinking                                Shatiti                                    Eshte

                  ata shote-you are drinking                           shatita                                    Tishte

                   at shota--you are drinking                          shatit                                       Tishti

                   u shote-he is drinking                                  shata                                      Yishte

                   he shota--she is drinking                              shateta                                   Tishte

                  anahnu shotim--we are drinking                     shatinu                                   Nishte

                    atem shotim--you are drinking                      shatitem                                Tishtu

                    aten shotot--you are drinking                        shatiten                                 Thishtu

                     em shotim---they are drinking                       shatu                                    Yishtu

                      en shotot---they are drinking                        shatu                                    Yishtu

Pff, thanks god we have not "present progressive past perfect" and those things....

Ma shlomha?-how are you

Ma shimha?-what is your name

Me'efo ata?--where are you coming from

ma mezeg a avir etzlehem?-how is the weather in your area?

aim bikarta ei pa'am(or "aim aita pa'am) be....have you been once to.....

ben kama ata?-how old are you

but what language?

Re: Poll: The hebrew-english

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:26:37 GMT

Especially for Ruslana and Ville:

Ani-I

Ata---you (male singular)

At----you(female singular)

U(like in the word "who")-He

Hi(sounds like "He)-----she

Anahnu-we

Atem-you(plural male)

Aten-you(Plural female)

Em---they(male)

En----they(female)

Verbs---To drink

Present Past Future

Ani shote- i'm drinking Shatiti Eshte

ata shote-you are drinking shatita Tishte

at shota--you are drinking shatit Tishti

u shote-he is drinking shata Yishte

he shota--she is drinking shateta Tishte

anahnu shotim--we are drinking shatinu Nishte

atem shotim--you are drinking shatitem Tishtu

aten shotot--you are drinking shatiten Thishtu

em shotim---they are drinking shatu Yishtu

en shotot---they are drinking shatu Yishtu

Pff, thanks god we have not "present progressive past perfect" and those things....

Ma shlomha?-how are you

Ma shimha?-what is your name

Me'efo ata?--where are you coming from

ma mezeg a avir etzlehem?-how is the weather in your area?

aim bikarta ei pa'am(or "aim aita pa'am) be....have you been once to.....

ben kama ata?-how old are you?