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Future Perfect Tense Examples – All Four Forms

13th June 2020 By Edify English Leave a Comment

Learning tenses makes a world of difference to your English language prowess and helps you to master English grammar and the subject in totality. The following article describes the various forms of future perfect tense examples and explains how the tense is used in everyday communication. Let us first look at the structure and rules of the tense.

Future Perfect Tense

The future perfect tense is used in sentences that denote the actions that will be completed by a certain time in the future.

Structure: Subject + will + have + Verb 3 (V3) + Object

Examples:

We will have seen that film by tomorrow night.
Sasha will have gone to London by June next year.
I will have got a job by the end of the year.
She will have reached there by midnight.

Future Perfect tense Examples – All forms

Like every tense, the future perfect tense too can be expressed in the following forms

Positive: Subject + will have +verb 3 + Object

Positive Interrogative: Will + subject + have + V3 + Object?

Negative: Subject + will not have + V3 + Object.

Negative Interrogative: Will + subject + not have + V3 + Object?

Let us take an example and write all the four forms.

Positive: I will have submitted my report by next week.
Positive Interrogative: Will I have submitted my report by next week?
Negative: I will not have submitted my report by next week.
Negative Interrogative: Will I not have submitted my report by next week?

Exercise: Let us take some more future perfect tense examples and write the above four forms of those sentences.

I will have become a doctorate by this time next year.
Will I have received my cheque by tomorrow?
Sam will not have eaten his lunch by now.
My son will have left for London by tomorrow morning.
Will the professor have announced the marks by the weekend?
The kid will have reached the school before the bell rings.

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Past Perfect tense Examples – All Four Forms

8th June 2020 By Edify English Leave a Comment

The best way to learn tenses in English Grammar is to know the usage and structure of the tense and then practice different forms of example sentences. In this article we have presented various forms of Past Perfect Tense Examples which help you to understand and remember the tense.

Past Perfect Tense

The past perfect tense describes an action completed at a certain time in the past. (Both singular and plural subjects will be accompanied by ‘had’ in the past perfect tense.)

Structure: Subject + Had + Verb 3 (V3) + Object

Example:

He had written a book when he was 10 years old.

Rule: When two past actions are mentioned in a single sentence, in order to distinguish both of them, the earlier action is described in the past perfect tense and the other action, in the simple past tense.

The train had already left by the time he reached the station.
The movie had already started by the time we entered the theatre.
Martin had called me before he came to my place.
I had deposited the money in the bank when Raj met me to borrow some.

Rule: If there is any unfulfilled wish in the past, it is expressed in the past perfect tense. For example,

She had hoped that I would marry her.
He had waited for her to come, but she didn’t.

Past Perfect Tense Examples

Like every tense, the past perfect tense can also be expressed in has four forms.

Positive : Subject + had + Verb 3 (V3) + Object

Positive Interrogative : Had +Subject + Verb 3 (V3) + Object?

Negative : Subject + had not + Verb 3 (V3) + Object

Negative Interrogative : Had not +Subject + Verb 3 (V3) + Object? (or) Had + Subject + not + V3 + Object

For example, if we take the sentence “He had left for Canada.” The sentence can be written in four forms as follows:

Positive : He had left for Canada.
Positive Interrogative : Had he left for Canada?
Negative : He had not left for Canada.
Negative Interrogative : Hadn’t he left for Canada? (Or) had he not left for Canada?

Exercise: Now, let us take some more examples and write all the four forms of those sentences.

I had written him a letter.
The train had left the station before I reached.
The professor had exited the building before she entered.

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Present Continuous Tense Examples – All Four Forms

8th May 2020 By Edify English Leave a Comment

The following are Present Continuous Tense Examples in various forms which helps us to know various ways in which the tense is used in real-life communication. Before going to that, it is important to learn the structure and rules of present continuous tense.

Structure: Sub + is/am/are + Verb 1 (V1) + ing + Obj

The following are the helping verbs that are formed for the personal pronouns in the present continuous tense.

Personal Pronoun	Helping Verb
I	am
We	are
You	are
He	Is
She	Is
It	Is
They	Are

Present continuous tense is used to denote an action that is currently happening.

I am currently working on a project.
The teacher is writing on the blackboard.
She is cooking
That man is mowing the lawn.
They are watching the picture.

Any action that is planned to happen in the near future is also written in the Present continuous tense.

I am meeting my professor after this lecture.
I am cooking my dinner tonight.

Forms of Present Continuous Tense

Like every tense, this tense also has four forms through which it can be expressed. The four are as follows:

Positive : Subject + is/am/are + V1 + ing + Object

Positive Interrogative : Is/am/are +Subject + V1 + ing + Object?

Negative : Subject + is/am/are + not + V1 + ing + Object

Negative Interrogative : Is/am/are + not + Subject + V1 + ing + Object?

If we take an example “He is walking on the pavement”, the four forms are as follows:

He is walking on the pavement.
Is he walking on the pavement?
He is not walking on the pavement.
Is he not walking on the pavement?

Some more examples of present continuous tense are as follows:

They are watching a film together.
The government is shutting down air travel.
The teacher is going away.
Scientists are researching for a cure to that disease.
The cops are following that car.
She is preparing dinner for the guests.

Exercise: Try to write the four forms of all the examples given above.

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