Future Perfect Continuous Tense

A. Future Perfect Continuous Tense Sentence Pattern             To make Future Perfect Continuous Tense sentences, you can use affirmative positive, negative and introgative sentence patterns as below.    ...

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Future Perfect Tense

A. Future Perfect Tense Sentence Patterns             When friends want to make the sentence Future Perfect Tense, you can use affirmative positive, negative and introgative sentence patterns as shown below.     (+) S + Will / Shall + Have + Verb-3     (-) S + Will / Shall + Not + Have + Verb-3    ...

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Future Continuous Tense

A. Future Continuous Tense Sentence Pattern              When friends want to make a Future Continuous Tense sentence, you can use affirmative positive, negative and introgative sentence patterns as shown below.      (+) S + Will / Shall + Be + Verb-ing      (-) S + Will / Shall + Not + Be + Verb-ing     ...

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Simple Future Tense

A. Explanation of Simple Future            As we know, the meaning of the word "future" itself is the future, Simple Future Tense is a type of English tenses used to express ideas or opinions that refer to plans, promises, and things...

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Present Perfect Continuous Tense

A. Definition of Present Perfect Continuous Tense           Present perfect tense is one of the tensis used to show the present time where the events or events that have occurred have occurred in the past but still continue in the present time. Consider again the example above. In the example 'It has been raining all day. I am tired of it 'refers to the...

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Present Perfect Tense

A. Explanation of Present Perfect Tense           There are several opinions of Grammar experts regarding Present Perfect Tense, including those of Raymond Murphy (2003: 14) regarding Present Perfect Tense, he argues: "When we use the...

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Present Continuous Tense

A. Explanation of the Present Continuity Tense Present Continuous Tense or often also called Present Progressive is certainly no stranger to our ears. Present continuous Tense is Tenses that explain an event that is happening at the present time. Some Grammar experts also think about the same thing about what is the Continuous Tense Present. Raymond Murphy (2003: 2) for example, argues that the Present...

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Simple Present Tense

A. Explanation of Simple Present Tense           There are several explanations about Simple Present Tense which of course we must understand together. According to Raymond Murphy (2003: 4) says that "We use the simple present to talk about things in general. We use it to say that something happens all the time or repeatedly, or that something is true...

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Past Perfect Continuous Tense

A. The Definition Of Perfect Continuous Tense             Past perfect is used to express activities that ALREADY happened before other activities occurred in the past (see: Explanation of Past Perfect). However, past perfect continuous is used to declare an activity that ALREADY occurred and is still CONTINUING in the past before other activities...

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Past Perfect Tense

A. Explanation of Past Perfect Tense             "Before I came here" is an event that happened in the past (Past), then when we want to talk about events that happened before, "She had cleaned this floor.", We use Past Perfect Tense. So Past Perfect Tense is a type of tenses that describe events or events that occurred before events in the past...

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Past Continuous Tense

         Past Continuous Tense is usually used to show two events that occur at the same time, but one event occurred earlier and is still ongoing when the second event occurs. Look at the example sentences below: "Yesterday Karen and Jim played tennis. They began at 10 o'clock and finished at 11.30. So, at 10.30 they were playing tennis."         ...

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Simple Past Tense

        Simple Past Tense ~ Up to the explanation of Simple Past Tense, it's been a long time not to talk about Tenses well ... Hehehe. Okay then ... Have friends ever been asked to write or recount past events in English ??? Definitely the answer, OFTEN. For friends who want to write or recount past events in English, that's when friends will use Past Tense. On this occasion,...

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