Some Tips and Tricks on Tenses

Learning tenses and how they are used in English will help you to be able to improve your speaking and writing skills. 

The tenses simply indicate the time of an action or state of being as shown by a verb.

Time can be split into three periods The Present (what you are doing), The Past (what you did) and The Future (what you are going to do, or hope / plan to do). 

In the rest of the essay I introduce the different types of tenses used in English Grammar then I will share some tips to enhance your grammar tenses skill. 

verb tense lessons: 6. Present Perfect

FORM

[has/have + past participle]

Examples:
•You have seen that movie many times.
•Have you seen that movie many times?
•You have not seen that movie many times.

verb tense lessons: 5. Past Cintinuous

FORM

[was/were + present participle]

Examples:
•You were studying when she called.
•Were you studying when she called?
•You were not studying when she called.

Verb tense lessons: 4.Simple Past

FORM

[VERB+ed] or irregular verbs

Examples:
•You called Debbie.
•Did you call Debbie?
•You did not call Debbie.
Complete List of Simple Past Forms 

Verb tense lessons: 3. Present Continuous

FORM

[am/is/are + present participle]

Examples:
•You are watching TV.
•Are you watching TV?
•You are not watching TV.
 

Verb tense lessons: 2. Simple present

FORM

[VERB] + s/es in third person

Examples:
•You speak English.
•Do you speak English?
•You do not speak English.

Verb tense lessons: 1. Types of verbs

Verb tenses are tools that English speakers use to express time in their language. You may find that many English tenses do not have direct translations in your language. That is not a problem. Here we start with a number of continues lesson by which  you will learn about different verbs and their applications. 

English Sentence Structure

Simple Sentence

A simple sentence contains one independent clause.

What’s an “independent clause”? It’s one subject followed by one verb or verb phrase. It expresses a single idea.

Examples of simple sentences:
◾I‘m happy.
◾Robert doesn’t eat meat.
◾My brother and I went to the mall last night.
◾This new laptop computer has already crashed twice. 

Sentence structure in English Writing

What is a complete sentence?

Sentences provide us with the framework for the clear written expression of our ideas. The aim in writing is always to write in complete sentences which are correctly punctuated. Sentences always begin with a capital letter and end in either a full stop, exclamation or question mark. A complete sentence always contains a verb, expresses a complete idea and makes sense standing alone. 

English Writing tips

There are many popular phrases that are commonly used in scientific papers. Knowing about these phrases can help us write more powerful.