VERB FORM

RUSLINA,S.S.,S.Pd.

TENSE
NOMINAL SENTENCE
1.
2.

3.

Nurse is hungry
Nurse was hungry
yesterday
Nurse will be hungry

Nurse would be
hungry
if I didnt visited her
yesterday
5.
Nurse has been
hungry
6.
Nurse is being
hungry
4.

1.
Nurse
goes
VERBAL
SENTENCE

to

hospital
2. Nurse went to
hospital yesterday
3. Nurse will go to
hospital tomorrow
4. Nurse would go to
hospital when I
visited her
yesterday
5. Nurse has gone to
hospital
6. Nurse is going to
hospital

The change of the sentences above

showed in the verb (predicate)
The changes of the verb base on
the changes of adverb of time and
event (activity/situation).

Tense is an element of
English grammar, which
sets a set of sentence
patterns based on the
activity or the situation
and the time when the
action or the situation
happens.(Ruslina:2007:9)

PRESENT
TIME PAST
FUTURE
PAST FUTURE
EVENT SIMPLE
CONTINOUS
PERFECT
PERFECT CONTINOUS

1. Simple 1. simple present

2. simple past
3. simple future
4. simple past future tense
2. Continous 1. present cont
2. past cont.
3. future cont
4. past future con
3. Perfect 1. present perfect
2. past perfect
3. future perfect
4. past future perfect
4. Perfect continous
1. present perfect continous
2. past perfect continous
3. future perfect continous
4. past future perfect continous tense

Verb form
Verb Verb Form
(base
)

explanati
on

Present (V1)

Past (V2)

Past
participle
(V3)

Present
Participl
e (Ving)

cook

Cook/cooks

cooked

cooked

cooking

Regular
verb

write

Write/writes

wrote

written

writing

Irregular
verb

be

Am/is/are

Was/were

been

being

Irregular
verb

do

Do/does

did

done

doing

Irregular
verb

have

Have/has

had

had

having

Regular
verb

VERB = PREDICATE
V1

PRESENT TENSE
FUTURE TENSE
V1(S/ES)

V1(S/ES)
WILL +

(BASE VERB/BV)

V2
V3
VING

PAST TENSE
PERFECT TENSE TO
CONTINOUS TENSE

HAVE + V3
TO BE +VING

SIMPLE
1.
2.
3.
4.

simple present = S + V1s/es + O/C (I call you)

simple past
= S + V2 + O/C (I called you)
simple future= S + WILL + BV + O/C (I will call you)
simple past future tense :
1. past tense = V2
2. future tense = WILL

+ BV

WOULD
Simple past future tense = S + WOULD + BV + O/C
(I would call you)

CONTINOUS = TOBE + Ving

1.

present cont. T: a. present tense

V1

b. Continous tense = tobe + Ving

am/is/are
S + AM/IS/ARE + Ving + O/C ( I am calling you)
2. past cont. T : a. Past tense

= V2

b. Continous Tense = tobe + ving

was/were
S + WAS/WERE + Ving + O/C (I was calling you)
3. future cont. T : a. future tense
b. Continous tense =

= will + BV
tobe + Ving

BE
S + WILL + BE + Ving + O/C ( I will be calling you)

excercise
4. past future continous tense ?
3. Perfect 1. present perfect ?
2. past perfect ?
3. future perfect ?
4. past future perfect ?
4. Perfect continous
1. present perfect continous ?
2. past perfect continous ?
3. future perfect continous ?
4. past future perfect cont. tense ?

Past future continous

tense