TENSE | |||||
Simple | Continuous | Perfect | Perfect Continuous | ||
Present | Active | Sub+V 1st F+(s, es, ies) | Sub+is, am, are +V+ing | Sub+has or have + V 3rd F | Sub+has or have +been+V+ing |
| Passive | Sub+is, am, are +V 3rd F | Sub+is, am, are+being+V 3rd F | Sub+has or have+been+ V 3rd F | – | |
Past | Active | Sub + V 2nd Form | Sub+was or were +V+ing | Sub+had + V 3rd Form | Sub+had been+V+ing |
| Passive | Sub+was or were+ V 3rd F | Sub+was or were+being+V 3rd F | Sub+had been+ V 3rd Form | – | |
Future | Active | Sub+shall or will + V 1st F | Sub+shall or will +be +V+ing | Sub+shall or will+have + V 3rd F | (It is not used in modern English) |
| Passive | Sub+shall or will+be+V 1st F | – | Sub+shall or will+have been+ V 3rd F | -do- | |
| (Persons: First Person – I, We ; Second Person – You ; Third Person – He, She, They, It, India, Pencil etc.) | |||||
| (Shall – Normally used with first persons ; Will – Normally used second and third persons) | |||||
TENSE – Example | |||||
Simple | Continuous | Perfect | Perfect Continuous | ||
Present | Active | I play | I am playing | I have played | I have been playing |
| Passive | I am played | I am being played | I have been played | – | |
Past | Active | I played | I was playing | I had played | I had been playing |
| Passive | I was played | I was being played | I had been played | – | |
Future | Active | I will play | I will be playing | I will have played | – |
| Passive | I will be played | – | I will have been played | – | |
Word | Unit of language | ||||
Sentence | Group of words, which makes complete sense. | ||||
Phrase | Group of words, which makes sense, but not complete sense. | ||||
Clause | Group of words, which forms part of a sentence, and contains a Subject and Predicate. | ||||
Parts of Speech | Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction & Interjection. | ||||