THE COMPETITIVE ARENA

TENSES AT A PRESENT PAST FUTURE

GLANCE ACTIVE PASSIVE ACTIVE PASSIVE ACTIVE PASSIVE

INDEFINITE SUB +M.V+OBJ SUB+BE VERB ( AM / SUB + PAST Form SUB+BE VERB SUB +SHALL/ SUB+SHALL/WILL+B
IS / ARE ) + PAST of M.V +OBJ ( WAS / WERE ) WILL+ M.V+ OBJ E
( Habitual action, I eat rice. PARTICIPLE of M.V + + M.V-PAST + M.V-PAST
custom,practice ) OBJ I ate rice. PARTICIPLE + I shall eat rice. PARTICIPLE + OBJ
OBJ
Rice is eaten by me. Rice will be eaten by
Add ‘s/es’ with Main Rice was eaten me.
Verb in Third Person by me.
Singular Number (Object of Active
Voice is used as
He eats rice. Subject in Passive
But , They eat rice . voice)

CONTINUOUS SUB+BE VERB ( AM / SUB+BE VERB ( AM / SUB+BE VERB SUB+BE VERB SUB+SHALL /
IS / ARE ) + M.V with IS / ARE ) +BEING + ( WAS / WERE ) + ( WAS / WERE ) WILL + BE + M.V
( Action is going –ing + OBJ M.V -PAST PARTICIPLE M.V with –ing + +BEING + M.V- with –ing +
on for a while ) + OBJ OBJ PAST OBJ
I am eating rice. PARTICIPLE + NOT IN USE
Rice is being eaten by I was eating rice. OBJ I shall be eating
me . rice at that time
Rice was being next monday .
eaten by me .
( Action going
on at some
future time )

TENSES AT A PRESENT PAST FUTURE

GLANCE ACTIVE PASSIVE ACTIVE PASSIVE ACTIVE PASSIVE

PERFECT SUB+HAVE/HAS+ M.V- SUB+HAVE/HAS+ SUB+HAD+ M.V- SUB+HAD+ SUB+SHALL

PAST PARTICIPLE + BEEN +M.V -PAST PAST PARTICIPLE BEEN +M.V- HAVE / WILL
OBJ PARTICIPLE + OBJ + OBJ PAST HAVE + M.V-
PARTICIPLE + PAST PARTICIPLE
I have eaten rice. Rice has been eaten I had eaten rice OBJ + OBJ NOT IN USE
by me. before you came .
Rice had been I shall have
( Action has just eaten by me. eaten rice
finished ) ( A past action before you
completed before come ( = will
another past action come ).
. That happened
earlier we use it as
past perfect , that
happened later we
use it as simple
past / past
indefinite )

PERFECT SUB+HAVE/HAS+BEEN SUB+HAVE/HAS+BEEN SUB+HAD+BEEN +

CONTINUOUS + M.V with –ing + + BEING + M.V-PAST M.V with–ing +
OBJ PARTICIPLE + OBJ OBJ
(Action going on NOT IN USE NOT IN USE NOT IN USE
I had been eating
for a long I have been eating Rice has been being
rice for thirty
period / time ) rice for thirty minutes eaten by me for thirty
minutes before you
. minutes . came.
(We use Past Perfect
Continuous Tense for
the action that
happened earlier ,
and Past Indefinite
Tense that happened
later .)
by Mr. S. Pal