Chapter 1
What is Tense?
tense (noun): a form of a verb used to indicate the time, and sometimes the continuation or completeness, of an action in relation to the time of speaking. (From Latin tempus = time).
Tense is a method that we use in English to refer to time - past, present and future. Many languages use tenses to talk about time. Other languages have no tenses, but of course they can still talk about time, using different methods.
So, we talk about time in English with tenses. But, and this is a very big but:
we can also talk about time without using tenses (for example, going to is a special construction to talk about the future, it is not a tense) .
Chapter 2
All Kinds Tenses :
> Present Tenses
Ø > Past Tenses
Ø > Future Tenses
Chapter 3
Sentence Tenses :
- Simple present tense : He listens to the radio
- Present continuous tense : He is listening to the radio
- Present perfect tense : He has listened to the radio
- Present perfect continuous tense : He has been listening to the radion
- Simple past tense : He listened to the radio
- Past continuous tense : He was listening to radio
- Past perfect tense : He has listened to the radio
- Past perfect continuous tense : He has been listened to the radio
- Future tense : He will listen to the radio
- Future continuous tense : He will be listening to the radio
- Future perfect tense : He will have listened to the radio
- Future perfect continuous tense : He will have been listening to the radio
List References :
1. http://www.scribd.com/doc/7180362/What-is-Tense
2. http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_sys-what.htm
3. http://www.anneahira.com/macam-macam-tenses.htm
3. http://www.anneahira.com/macam-macam-tenses.htm
