Tenses: Introduction

Hi guys...I went on a tour, that's why a little delay in my next blog.

  Now, I will start the very basics of English, i.e, TENSES, without which we can not speak or write English.

Not only in English, but in all languages we have 3 tenses. Those are:

1. Present Tense (things that are happening currently)
2. Past Tense (things that happened in the past)
3. Future Tense (things that will be happened in future)

  We have 2 categories of tenses based on the way of people talk, they are:

> Active Voice (subject does something to the object)
> Passive Voice (object is done by subject)

When you are perfect with these tenses, you almost can speak/write in English without any mistakes and you can also correct others, who speak/write in wrong format.

Why should we learn Tenses?


     Many people do have this question. Let me clarify a little bit of it. As non English speakers, we do speak our own mother tongue(local language) without any mistakes. But when it comes to English language, many people do use future tense in past and present, past tense in future and so on.

For example:  Yesterday, I will eat an apple.
                        I am eating an apple yesterday at this time.

So, in order to avoid the wrong usage of tense, it is suggested to learn about tenses and their formulas.

Before proceeding our discussion with the tenses, let's discuss about basic format of making a sentence in English.

      subject +  verb + object

In here, we can also form a sentence by using subject+verb and verb+object, but we can not form any sentence without a verb (i.e, subject+object). Because, without a verb a sentence is meaningless.

Subject: 
                It can be a person or a thing, which performs some action.

Ex: I(subject) did it.

Verb:
                The action that is performed by the subject.

Ex: I bought(verb) an apple.

Object:
                 It can be anything, that gets some action performed by the subject.

Ex: I went to market(object).
   
All the above 3 examples are meaningless with the verb. Please try to read those sentences without the verb in it, then you will understand better.