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    The document is a student assignment on tenses and their active and passive voices. It defines what a tense is and lists the main tenses in English: present, past, and future. For each tense, it provides examples of how to form the active and passive voice. The tenses covered are the simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous forms for the present, past, and future. The examples focus on eating apple pies to illustrate converting sentences between active and passive voice.

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    UNIVERSITY OF GUJRAT

    A WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITY

    Functional English
    (Assignment #1 – Tenses & Their Active/Passive Voices)

    (1st SEMESTER FALL – 2023)


    Submission Deadline (15/12/2023)
    BY

    Merab Mahrukh | (23030920 – 012)

    Course Code (ENG-101)


    Bachelor of Business Administration (Section-2023A)

    Submitted to
    Ms. HUSNA KHALID

    Department of Management Sciences

    UNIVERSITY OF GUJRAT
    What is a Tense?
    A tense is a form of the verb that allows you to express time, an event, existence
    of something or when a person did something.

    Types of Tenses
    There are three types of tenses:
    1. Present
    2. Past
    3. Future

    Present:
    • Simple Present: I eat an apple pie every day.
    • Present Continuous: I am eating an apple pie right now.
    • Present Perfect: I have eaten an apple pie already.
    • Present Perfect Continuous: I have been eating apple pies for a while.
    Past:
    • Simple Past: I ate an apple pie yesterday.
    • Past Continuous: I was eating an apple pie when the phone rang.
    • Past Perfect: I had eaten an apple pie before I went to bed.
    • Past Perfect Continuous: I had been eating apple pies for a while when
    you called.
    Future:
    • Simple Future: I will eat an apple pie tomorrow.
    • Future Continuous: I will be eating an apple pie at this time tomorrow.
    • Future Perfect: I will have eaten an apple pie by the time you arrive.
    • Future Perfect Continuous: I will have been eating apple pies for an hour
    when you get here.

    Conversion to Active and Passive Voice


    (Present Tenses)
    1. Simple Present:
    •
    Active: She eats an apple pie every day.
    • Passive: An apple pie is eaten by her every day.
    2. Present Continuous:
    • Active: He is eating an apple pie right now.
    • Passive: An apple pie is being eaten by him right now.
    3. Present Perfect:
    • Active: They have eaten all the apple pies.
    • Passive: All the apple pies have been eaten by them.

    4. Present Perfect Continuous:


    • Active: I have been eating apple pies for a while.
    • Passive: Apple pies have been being eaten by me for a while.

    (Past Tenses)
    1. Simple Past:
    • Active: We ate an apple pie yesterday.
    • Passive: An apple pie was eaten by us yesterday.
    2. Past Continuous:
    • Active: She was eating an apple pie when the phone rang.
    • Passive: An apple pie was being eaten by her when the phone rang.
    3. Past Perfect:
    • Active: He had eaten an apple pie before he went to bed.
    • Passive: An apple pie had been eaten by him before he went to bed.
    4. Past Perfect Continuous:
    • Active: They had been eating apple pies for a while when you
    called.
    • Passive: Apple pies had been being eaten by them for a while when
    you called.

    (Future Tenses)
    1. Simple Future:
    • Active: I will eat an apple pie tomorrow.
    • Passive: An apple pie will be eaten by me tomorrow.
    2. Future Continuous:
    • Active: She will be eating an apple pie at this time tomorrow.
    • Passive: An apple pie will be being eaten by her at this time
    tomorrow.
    3. Future Perfect:
    • Active: They will have eaten all the apple pies by the time you
    arrive.
    • Passive: All the apple pies will have been eaten by them by the
    time you arrive.
    4. Future Perfect Continuous:
    • Active: I will have been eating apple pies for an hour when you get
    here.
    • Passive: Apple pies will have been being eaten by me for an hour
    when you get here.

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