Structures of Tenses:

1. Continuous (V) = BE forms + ing (V4)

Present Past Past Present 2. Perfect (V) = Have form + V3
3. Perfect Continuous (V) = HBI
Tense Tense Participle Participle
(Have form + Been + Ing)
V1 (eat) V2 (ate) V3 (eaten) V4 (eating)
S.No Name of the tense Structure Example
1 Simple Present S + V1 + O I eat an apple.
2 Simple Past S + V2 + O I ate an apple.
3 Simple Future S + will / shall + V1 + O I will eat an apple.
4 Present Continuous S + am / is / are + V4 + O I am eating an apple.
5 Past Continuous S + was / were + V4 + O I was eating an apple.
6 Future Continuous S + will / shall + be + V4 + O I will be eating an apple.
7 Present Perfect Continuous S + have / has + been + V4 + O I have been eating an apple.
8 Past Perfect Continuous S + had + been + V4 + O I had been eating an apple.
9 Future Perfect Continuous S + will / shall + have + been + v4 + O I will have been eating an apple.
10 Present Perfect S + have / has + V3 + O I have eaten an apple.
11 Past Perfect S + had + V3 + O I had eaten an apple.
12 Future Perfect S + will / shall + have + V3 + O I will have eaten an apple.
S.No Name of the tense Structure Example
1 Simple Present S + V1 + O I eat an apple.
2 Simple Past S + V2 + O I ate an apple.
3 Simple Future S + will / shall + V1 + O I will eat an apple.
4 Present Continuous S + am / is / are + V4 + O I am eating an apple.
5 Past Continuous S + was / were + V4 + O I was eating an apple.
6 Future Continuous S + will / shall + be + V4 + O I will be eating an apple.
7 Present Perfect Continuous S + have / has + been + V4 + O I have been eating an apple.
8 Past Perfect Continuous S + had + been + V4 + O I had been eating an apple.
9 Future Perfect Continuous S + will / shall + have + been + V4 + O I will have been eating an apple.
10 Present Perfect S + have / has + V3 + O I have eaten an apple.
11 Past Perfect S + had + V3 + O I had eaten an apple.
12 Future Perfect S + will / shall + have + V3 + O I will have eaten an apple.
Key points to remember:
1. V4 is used in all the six continuous tenses and every V4 must be supported by a ‘BE’ form.
2. V3 is used in all the three perfect tenses and every V3 must be supported by a ‘Have’ form.
3. Both V4 and V3 together can manage nine tenses out of twelve sentences in English.

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 1. SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE:

S + V1 (+ s/es) + O
Fundamental Rule in English: In simple present tense whenever the subject
is in third person singular number (He,She,It etc.,), we must add ‘s’ / ‘es’ to
the following verb.

Eg:

1. He goes to college daily.

2. She comes to Everest.

3. It works well.

4. Rohith Sharma plays cricket.

5. Chitra sings songs.

6. Mahesh looks smart.

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 Uses:

1. It is used to express habitual actions(regular actions)

Eg:

1. He gets up at 5 o’clock in the morning daily.

2. He goes to college at 8. am.

3. I eat a banana every day.

4. They play cricket every week.

5. He usually comes to my house on Sundays.

6. She goes to her village every month.

7. We celebrate Independence day on 15th August every year.

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 2. It is used to express universal truths.

Eg:

1. The sun rises in the east.

2. The earth moves around the sun.

3. Birds fly in the sky.

4. The cow gives us milk.

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 3. It is used to express planned future actions

Eg:

1. The CM visits Karimnagar tomorrow.

2. He comes to India in next month.

3. Our college reopens next week.

4. I go to Bangalore next Saturday.

5. We play cricket next Sunday.

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 Clue words: usually, generally, always, frequently, rarely, sometimes,
regularly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, every day/week/month/year,
seldom, often, never, occasionally etc.

PINNI:

Positive : You go to college daily.

Interrogative : Do you go to college daily?

Negative : You don’t go to college daily.

Negative Interrogative : Don’t you go to college daily?

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 PINNI - 1 PINNI - 3
P : They play cricket. P :You know English.
I : Do they play cricket ? I : Do you know English?
N : They don’t play cricket. N :You don’t know English.
N.I . : Don’t they play cricket? N.I . : Don’t you know English?

PINNI - 2 PINNI - 4
P : She comes here daily. P : He goes for a walk daily.
I : Does she come here daily? I : Does he go for a walk daily?
N : She doesn’t come here daily. N : He doesn’t go for a walk daily.
N.I . : Doesn’t she come here daily? N.I . : Doesn’t he go for a walk daily?

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 EXERCISE - FILL IN THE BLANKS
1). The earth _____ round the sun.
1) move 2) moves 3) is moving 4) moved

2). This paper ___twice weekly

1) Appeared 2) appears
3) was appearing 4) is appearing

3).Birds _____ nests.

1) Build 2) builds 3) built 4) are building

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 4). He is very clever boy; he ___ four languages
1) Speaks 2) is speaking 3) has spoken 4) was speaking

5). My friend usually ___ me at dusk

1) is visiting 2) has visited 3) visited 4) visits

6). Radha ____ Rani well, they ____ at the club every Sunday.
1) know, meet 2) knows, meets 3) knew, meet 4) knows, meet

7).The wood always ___ on water

1) Float 2) was floating 3) floats 4) floated

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EXERCISE – SPOTTING ERRORS

1. Their company is going to incur (1)/ heavy losses this year because (2)/ of the big discounts they
(3)/ offers to customers. (4)/ No error (5)

2. She is pretending (1)/ to be sick (2)/ because she don’t (3)/ want to study. (4)/ No error (5)

3. Most birds sings (1)/ only in day-light, (2)/ one notable exception (3)/ being the nightingale.
(4)/No error (5)

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 EXERCISE – SPOTTING ERRORS

4. Majority of the banks (1)/ today uses technology (2)/ to reach out to those (3)/ living in rural
areas. (4)/ No error (5)

5. He is going everyday (a)/ for a morning walk (b)/ with his friends and neighbours. (c)/ No error
(d)

6. A shop nearby (a)/ sell all the goods (b)/ of daily use (c)/ No error(d) [CGL TIER-I 2021]

7. I goes /to the school /every day /irrespective of the weather. [SSC CHSL-2021]

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8. Sunita is senior to me in this office and know all the rules.

[SSC CPO-2018 TIER-I]

a) Sunita is senior to me

b) all the rules

c) and know

d) in this office
 EXERCISE – SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT
1). Mr. Reddy is going for a walk daily.
A) Go B) Goes
C) Will Go D) No Improvement

2). He lives in Hyderabad but he don’t know Telugu.

A) Doesn’t know B) Didn’t know
C) Won’t know D) No Improvement

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 EXERCISE – SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT
3). We go to Ooty in summer every year.
A) Goes B) Will go
C) Went D) No Improvement

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 2. SIMPLE PAST
S + V2 + O
USES
1. It is used to express an action which happened at a specific point of time in the past.
Eg:
1. I spoke to him an hour ago.
2. We saw a movie last night.
3. He came to my house yesterday.
4. They played cricket last Sunday.
5. We went to Kerala last month.
6. She bought a car six months ago.
7. She completed B.Tech last year.
8. India got freedom in 1947.

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 CLUE WORDS: Yesterday, day before yesterday, ago, last week/
month/ year, once, long ago, at that time, in 1947 / 2000 / 2015
etc.

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PINNI - 1 PINNI - 3
P :You went to college yesterday. P : She came here last month.
I : Did go to college yesterday ? I : Did she come here last month?
N :You didn’t go to college yesterday. N : She didn’t come here last month.
N.I . : Didn’t you go to college yesterday? N.I . : Didn’t she come here last month?

PINNI - 2 PINNI - 4
P : They played cricket last week. P :You loved her.
I : Did they play cricket last week? I : Did you love her?
N : They didn’t play cricket last week. N :You didn’t love her.
N.I . : Didn’t they play cricket last week? N.I . : Didn’t you love her?

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 EXERCISE - FILL IN THE BLANKS
1). He ____ out five minutes ago
1) has gone 2) had gone 3) went 4) was going

2). I ___ a new bicycle last week

1) have bought 2) had bought 3) bought 4) would bought

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 EXERCISE - FILL IN THE BLANKS
3).We ___ to see the movie last night.
1) Went 2) had gone
3) have gone 4) go

4). He ____ to my house last month.

a) came b) has come
c) had come d) will come

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 EXERCISE – SPOTTING ERRORS

1. I have passed (1)/ the examination (2)/ two years ago. (3)/ No error(4)

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2. The old man did not wanted to eat any food.

[SSC CHSL-2019]

a) to eat

b) did not wanted

c) any food

d) The old man

3. I use to going for a morning walk when I was living in Dehradun.

[SSC CGL-2018 TIER-II ]

a) living in Dehradun

b) for a morning walk

c) when I was

d) use to going
4. In the primitive oceans. life begins nearly 3.5 billion years ago.

[SSC MTS -2021]

A) life begins

B) In the primitive

C) nearly 3.5 billion years ago.

D) oceans
 EXERCISE – SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT
1). I have bought this house for Rs. 20 Lakhs in 2000.
A) Bought B) Had bought
C) Will buy D) No Improvement

2). I didn't knew that you were in hospital.

A) Don’t know B) Didn’t know
C) Doesn’t know D) No Improvement

3). I had received my hall ticket yesterday.

A) Have received B) Receive
C) Received D) No Improvement

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4. Where you left your bag yesterday? [SSC CGL TIERI 2019]

A) No substitution

B) Where did you left

C) Where were you leaving

D) Where did you leave

5. When I was a child I do not like going out to play in the park.

[SSC CGL TIERI 2018]

A) did not like

B) don’t likes

C) no improvement

D) did not liked

6. She has returned from Delhi a month ago.

[SSC CHSL 2021]

A) was returned

B) No substitution

C) would returned

D) returned
7. In India, processed foods becomes popular in the 20th century.
[MTS-2021]

1) become popularity in

2) No improvement required

3) become popular at

4) became popular in
8. ‘Did you brought your drawing books?’ the teacher asked the students.

[SSC CPO-2018]

a) Did you bring

b) Do you bringing

c) Do you brought

d) No improvement