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What is tense? Sometimes it becomes very ambiguous to understand it from Bengali word kal which means time. Tense or kal is the time that refers to the time of a verb completion. Now see these sentences: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. I go to college I am going to college I went to college I had gone to college I will be going to college

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The underlined words are just various form of verb done based on the tense or time of verb completion. So, elaborately we can say that if time of a verb is different, the form of verb also changes according to the rules of tense. Lets see how it works.

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If we would like to understand tense well, we must understand distinction between time and moment. Time has started from the creation of the universe and it will remain to us until the world destroy. Time is a vast field. To identify a work in time frame we have divided time as per If working time is. Before Now After For example, I teach you English. I am teaching you tense now. I have brought a paper for this. I have been teaching it for last two months. The verbs of this passage are in present tense as the completion time of verbs refers time now. I taught you English. I was teaching you tense then. I had brought a paper for this. I had been teaching it for last two months.
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Time period will be Past Present Future

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The verbs of this passage are in past tense as the completion time of verbs refers time before.

I will teach you English. I will be teaching you tense now. I will have brought a paper for this. I shall have been teaching it for last two months. The verbs of this passage are in future tense as the completion time of verbs refers time after.

Now the question is why verb form changes if it is in present, past or future mentioned above. Time Present past future Moment? teach taught Will teach Moment? Am teaching Was teaching Will be teaching Moment? Have taught Had taught Will have taught Moment? Have been teaching Had been teaching Will have been teaching

We see here that verbs of first row are in present tense but verbs of different rows belong to different moment. What is moment? Moment is particular time or how the verb is being accomplished. We have four moments. These are: 1. Indefinite If we cannot define the time period of a verb definitely 2. Continuous If the verb works continuously 3. Perfect If the verb works up to that time 4. Perfect Continuous If the works continuously with a time period

Now see what moment changes what form of verb ignoring present, past or future form of verb. Indefinite Contunuous Perfect Verb form Verb-ing form Verb-past participle form

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Verb-ing form

Perfect continuous

Now we know the use of main verb. So we will know now how auxiliary verb is related. Indefinite present vpresent form v-past form vpresent form Continuous Am/is/are v-ing Perfect Have/has Perfect Continuous Hav/has v-ing been Had been Shall have/ will have been v-ing v- ing

v-p.p.

past future Will

Was/ were Shall/ will be

v-ing v-ing

had

v-p.p.

Shall/ v-p.p. will- have

Now use the verb do in the blanks. I _________ this job daily (Indefinite) = I am __________ this job ( Continuous) = I have __________ this job (perfect) = I have been ________ this job (perfect continuous)

Now use the auxiliary verb properly in the following blanks: I ______________do this job daily. = I _______________ did this job yesterday. = I _______________ do this job tomorrow. He ___________ doing this job now =
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He ___________ doing this job then. = He ____________ doing this job tomorrow.

You ____________ done this job just now = You ____________done this job before. = You ____________done this job tomorrow.

We _____________ doing this job for two hours. = We _____________ doing this job since 2010. = We ______________ doing this job since 2015.

Now see the traditional structure of tense

Indefinite present S+V+O

continuous S+am/is/are+ving

perfect S+ have/ has + V.P.P+

Perfect continuous S+ have/ has been + v-ing + .. S + shall/ will have been + O+ . S+ shall/ will have been+ ving+

Past

S+V(past) +O

S + was/were + V-ing + ..

S+ had + V.P.P + O+

future

S+V(future)+O S+ shall/ will be+V-ing+..

S+shall/will have + v.p.p.+

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MD. MONIRUZZAMAN FAKIR

Lecturer in English Birshreshtha Munshi Abdur Rouf Public College, BGB, Pilkhana, Dhaka 01917502990, 01682336919 mam_vang@yahoo.com

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