http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aPresent+progressive+tag%3aPast+simple+tag%3aConditionalsSearch results for 'tag:Present progressive tag:Past simple tag:Conditionals' matching tags 'Present progressive', 'Past simple', and 'Conditionals'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/ConditionsAndStuffHelp/pqjk/post.htmFri, 04 Mar 2005 23:40:35 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:78482casasCould you guys tell me were my mistakes are in this I think I got it Thanks for all the help PRESENT CONDITIONAL sometimes called the ZERO CONDITIONAL IF PRESENT PRESENT E g If you mix yellow and blue you get green 1st CONDITIONAL IF PRESENT FUTURE E g If you drink this you ll get better 2nd CONDITIONAL IF PAST WOULD d INFINITIVE E g If I saw him again I d shake his hand 3rd CONDITIONAL IF PAST PERFECT WOULD HAVE PAST PARTICIPLE E g If I had run faster I would have caught the bus Exercise 10 Look at the following sentences and decide whether they are PRESENT 1st 2nd or 3rd CONDITIONALS E g 1 If I knew where he lived I d visit him 2nd Conditional 2 If you heat water to 100 degrees Celsius it boils 1st Conditional 3 If you go out alone at night you will get into trouble 2nd Conditional 4 If you had lived in Spain you would have been able to speak Spanish 3rd Conditional 5 If I eat chocolate all the time I get fat 1st Conditional 6 If I were you I d buy the red dress 2nd Conditional 7 If she had looked where she was going she wouldn t have had an accident 3rd connditional 8 If you come to the party tonight you ll meet Tom 1st Conditional Exercise 1 Look at this example taken from a newspaper Prime Minister unveils new policies Although it is written in the present tense it refers to past time Look at the following sentences using present simple tense verbs and decide what time reference they have PRESENT PAST or FUTURE E g 1 When you see her will you say hello from me Future 2 Cantona passes to Giggs who passes to Sharp Present 3 She walks in comes right up to me and says Past 4 The train leaves at 10 30 Future 5 We ll phone as soon as we get there Future Exercise 2 Look through the following sentences and select the TENSE and the time reference used E g 1 If I won a lot of money I d travel the world Past Simple Future 2 I wish I had more time to finish this exercise Past Simple Past 3 When you have finished you can go home Past Perfect Present 4 Major calls for peace summit headline Present Perfect Past 5 I m meeting some friends at the pub tonight Present Progressive Furure 6 We ve got the next lesson in the language library Present Progressive Future 7 I am to give a speech at the conference next week Present simple Future http://www.englishforums.com/English/QuestionBasedGrammaticalContent/mdqk/post.htm#60105Wed, 08 Dec 2004 08:34:06 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:60105califjimTechnically there are two tenses Present or Non Past and Past There are four aspects derived from two aspect pairs simple vs perfect and simple vs progressive Simple Perfect Progressive and Perfect Progressive Some authors call the perfect non perfect distinction phase Combining these gives eight tense aspect combinations sometimes called tenses There are two voices Active and Passive Combining these with the previous set gives 16 tense aspect voice combinations sometimes called tenses When aspect and voice are included in the paradigm of the tenses the word tense is being used with an extended meaning Modals are the verbs will would shall should can could may might and must Each can occur as the initial element in eight aspect voice combinations described above need and dare are defective modals they are only used in non assertive contexts will and to a lesser extent shall are used to create the so called future tense or future of the present which is more of a mood than a tense would and to a much lesser extent should are used to create the so called conditional tense or future of the past also not a tense strictly speaking would is sometimes regarded as the past of will Other modals are used to express ideas of permission possibility obligation necessity and so on The names of the sixteen basic tenses are Present Present Perfect Present Progressive Present Perfect Progressive Past Past Perfect Past Progressive Past Perfect Progressive Present Passive Present Perfect Passive Present Progressive Passive Present Perfect Progressive Passive Past Passive Past Perfect Passive Past Progressive Passive Past Perfect Progressive Passive Different authors may use different names particularly with regard to the order of the terms within the name Simple Past or Past Simple are sometimes used for Past Continuous is often used instead of Progressive CJ