Verbs

Verbs - are action words.

Tenses of Verbs
1. Simple Present Tense - does not only express actions that are presently happening. It also expresses habitual action. It also expresses:

• opinion

Examples: Shelter is one of the basic need of people.
Students learn a lot from school.

• permanent condition

Examples:
The earth is round.
The sun rises in the east.

• future action

Examples:
She plans to resign next month.
Sheila's wedding is on the first Sunday of June.

• habitual action

Examples:
Cyrus takes a bath every morning.
Liza waits for her mother at their gate every afternoon.

• general truth

Examples:
Everyone grows old.
Students learn a lot from school.

2. Simple Past Tense- expresses simple past action or situation and habitual repeated action in the past. They are formed by adding d or ed to the regular base form. Irr3egular verbs from their past by changing their spelling. Used to + base form or the verb to express habitual or repeated actions in the past.
Regular Verbs form their past tense by adding d or ed to the regular base form.

Examples:
Present - Past

• play - played
• dare - dared
• fill - filled
• heal - healed

Irregular verbs form their past tense by changing the spelling of the words.
Examples:
Present - Past

• see - saw
• teach - taught
• tear - tore
• leave - left

Examples:
When he saw the large crowd, her heart was filled with joy.
Cyrus and Jlo used to play badminton in college.
Alfred worked in a coffee shop.

3. Simple Future Tense - shows action that will still happen. The future tense verbs may be formed with the use of will or shall together with the base form of the verbs.

Examples:
We will wait for you here.
We shall stay here until tonight.
We will look for your dog tomorrow morning.

4. Progressive Tenses - shows continuous action by using some verb forms with the ing-form. It is made up of a form of the be-verb together with the ing-form.

• Present Progressive Tenses - expresses action that is going on at the time of speaking.
• Past Progressive Tenses - describes an action that was going on when something else happened.
• Future Progressive Tenses - indicates an action lasting for a period of time in the future.

Examples:
Present Progressive Tenses: Jen is playing volleyball.
Past Progressive Tenses: Jen was playing volleyball when her Jenny called her.
Future Progressive Tenses: Jen will be playing volleyball as soon as her bestfriend arrives.


5. Present Perfect Tense - expresses action that started in the past and continues up to the present.
Examples:
Ms. Stuart has not visited my place yet.
Sydney has already paid his tuition fee.
They have given a lot of donations for five years.


6. Past Perfect Tense - consist of had and the past participle of verb form. It is used to express an action or state of being completed in the past before some other past action or state of being.
Examples:
She had decided not to join the pageant.
Cyrus had waited for a long time.
Theresa had applied for the job.

7. Future Perfect Tense - expresses an action or state of being to be completed in the future before some other future action or state of being. It consist of will have/shall have plus the past participle verb from.
Examples:
They will have arrived in Cebu before New Year's eve.
Anie will have realized her mistakes.
The Ayala family willl have waited at the terminal for an hour.