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    This document discusses verbs and verb tenses in English. It explains that verbs refer to actions, events or states and are one of the major word classes along with nouns, adjectives and adverbs. It then describes the different verb tenses used to talk about past, present and future time, including the present simple, present continuous, past simple, past continuous, present perfect, and future forms using will, going to or the present continuous. Various ways of talking about the past like the past perfect and past perfect continuous are also outlined.

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    This document discusses verbs and verb tenses in English. It explains that verbs refer to actions, events or states and are one of the major word classes along with nouns, adjectives and adverbs. It then describes the different verb tenses used to talk about past, present and future time, including the present simple, present continuous, past simple, past continuous, present perfect, and future forms using will, going to or the present continuous. Various ways of talking about the past like the past perfect and past perfect continuous are also outlined.

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    This document discusses verbs and verb tenses in English. It explains that verbs refer to actions, events or states and are one of the major word classes along with nouns, adjectives and adverbs. It then describes the different verb tenses used to talk about past, present and future time, including the present simple, present continuous, past simple, past continuous, present perfect, and future forms using will, going to or the present continuous. Various ways of talking about the past like the past perfect and past perfect continuous are also outlined.

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    VERBS

    Verbs are one of the four major word classes, along


    with nouns, adjectives and adverbs. A verb refers to
    an action, event or state.
    VERB TENSES
    Tenses refer to different forms of a verb or verb phrase. We use
    different tenses to talk or write about different times.

    • We usually use present tense verb forms to talk about states, events
    or actions that happen or are happening in the present time.
    • We usually use past tense verb forms to talk about past time, to
    describe events, states or actions that have finished. We can also use
    past tense forms to refer to present time, for example, for reasons of
    politeness or indirectness (I was wondering if you wanted a drink) and
    present tense forms to refer to past time, for example, for dramatic
    effect.
    • There is no future tense form of verbs in English. We refer to future
    time in several different ways for different functions, for example,
    using the present tense or be going to or will.
    PAST - There are a number of ways of
    talking about the past:
    We talked for hours on the phone. (past simple)

    I’ve cleaned the kitchen. (present perfect simple)

    She was running to catch the bus. (past continuous)


    I’ve been painting. (present perfect continuous)
    I’d paid by credit card. (past perfect simple)
    I’d been reading about the accident in the paper. (past
    perfect continuous)
    The kids would play in the garden in the summer
    evenings and we would sit and talk for hours. (modal
    verb would)
    He used to play lots of sport when he was younger. He
    doesn’t seem to do any exercise now. (semi-modal
    verb used to)
    PRESENT TENSE
    Present time refers to the time around the moment of writing or
    speaking (time around now) and to general and permanent time.
    The two most common ways to refer to present time are the
    present simple for general facts and regular events, and the
    present continuous for an event happening now:
    Water turns to ice at below 0°. (present simple for a general fact)

    Does it rain a lot in Wales? (present simple asking about a general fact)
    I usually take the bus to work. (present simple for a regular event)
    Take an umbrella with you. It’s raining. (present continuous for something happening now)
    PRESENT TENSES

    Present simple (I work)

    Present continuous (I am working)

    Present perfect simple (I have worked)

    Present perfect continuous (I have been working)


    FUTURE TENSE
    There is no future tense in English. We use several different ways to
    talk about the future. The most common are:

    Nadia arrives in about half-an-hour from now. (present Simple).


    Leena is working in Singapore next week. (present continuous)
    I think they will postpone the match. (modal verb will)
    They’re going to build a new shopping centre here. (be going to)
    I’ll be running ten kilometres a day for the next two weeks to get ready
    for the marathon. (future continuous)

    We’re late. Do you think the lecture will have started? (future perfect)
    REFERENCES:

    • https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pt/gramatica/british-grammar/
    tenses-and-time (em 02/02/2024)

    • English Grammar in Use, 5th edition, by R. Murphy

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