Verb tenses tell us when something takes place, or at which point in time. The three main tenses in English are the present tense, the past tense and the future tense.
Each of these tenses has 4 types of tenses within them: the simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous. Read out comprehensive guides on verbs and all of the different tenses to master English verb conjugation.
What is the past perfect tense? The past perfect, also called the pluperfect, is a form of the past that describes when something happened before… Read More »What’s the Past Perfect Tense? (Meaning & Examples)
All about the future tense How do you speak about something that will take place in the future in English? By using the future tense,… Read More »The Future Tense (4 Forms of the Future Tense)
The active voice shows the subject as ‘in action’, and doing something. The passive voice shows the action as being received by or done to something or someone.
‘Was’ is for first-person and third-person singular subjects past tense, and ‘were’ for second-person and third-person plural subjects. With the subjunctive mood, use ‘were’ in all cases.
Put is an irregular verb with one form that remains unchanged no matter the tense. It’s similar to other irregular verbs like shut, burst, let, and hurt.
Cost only has one form, which is cost. Cost is a single-form verb that stays the same no matter the tense.
To be means being as in existing. I am, you are, he is, they are, are are all forms of being in the present (to be).
Verb tenses are points in time. The word tense comes from the Latin tempus, “a portion of time”.
To draw is in the present tense; whereas drew is the simple past, and drawn is the past participle (in all contexts).
‘There is’ is singular, and ‘there are’ is plural. ‘There are’ vs ‘there is’ has to do with the subject and verb of a sentence agreeing with each other in count.