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English Language Tenses (Advanced Level)

What is a Tense? [The word tense comes from Latin tempus,time.] We have three kinds of time,
  • Present.
  • Past.
  • Future.

What ever we say and whenever we say ,it is related to a particular time.It can not happen that you say a sentence and it is not related to any tense.So tenses are very important in any language.Here you must note that every language does not have grammar , but still they are spoken. But a lot of languages are those which do have grammar and rules and regulations.Tenses does not mean to learn only structures and then you are on your way to using them.

A mistake which students usually make is that they never try to learn the usage of the tenses and just try to memorize the structure of any tense and then they think that they can use the tense. Never, it is never possible. Structures only help you to make sentences , they can never help you in understanding the tenses. So you must try to understand the usage of different tenses and should see how they can be used in different situations. Another mistake is trying to learn tenses ,having indentifications from your own mother tongue, which is a world wide problem. Students rather than understanding the usage of any tense, make an identification of sentences of their own mother tongue and attach that identification with any tense and think that it would be enough for speaking English fleuntly. I don't say that it cannot help you even a bit. It can but it is going to make a boundry of your own lanuguage around English and you will be dependent on your own language to learn English or any other foreign language.

So , the right way to learn tenses is to learn the usage of those tenses. And then , you are on the right path.Remember you must have been learning the usage of tenses for a long long time but still you are here reading this article. So , here a question rises a lot of people claim that they know the usage of all of the tenses but still they cannot speak English. The answer is very simple ,their claim is right , they do know the usage of different tenses but the problem is that they never apply tenses which is the basic problem. Just by knowing the usage of anything cannot make you speak you fluently.You have to apply all of that knowledge which you have at the time of speaking English ,unitl and unless you do it ,you can never speak English fluently.

Please do not mind, but lazy people cannot achieve anything in their lives. If you really want to speak English fluently and properly, make it a habit of applying all what you have learnt so far,otherwise after visiting this website , you will be visiting another website trying to learn tenses.I can guarantee if you learn and APPLY whatever you learn here or anywhere you will not have to wander looking for grammar explanation.

Tips for speakers of Urdu learning English as second language.

The students who are learning English using Urdu, must remember that here you can have explanation of all tenses and other grammar rules and regulations in Urdu ,try to learn English within English and even in Urdu explanations I have emphasized on the importance of learning English without the support of your own mother tongue and I have also given reasons for that, but I know that there are a lot of people in my country who can not understand English, so only for them I have provided grammar explanation and other things in Urdu and even in them I have emphasized on not depending upon Urdu to learn English.

Contents



Present Indefinite Tense
Present Continuous Tense
Present Perfect Tense
Present Perfect Continuous Tense
Past Indefinite Tense
Past Continuous Tense
Past Perfect Tense
Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Future Indefinite Tense
Future Continuous Tense
Future Perfect Tense
Future Perfect Continuous

52 comments:

faiza said...

thanx

salma said...

it's very helpful thanx a lot

Qasim said...

it,s very helpful thanx

Qasim said...

thanx frm my all frends

Anonymous said...

its very good keep doing like this

Anonymous said...

Hi Faisal,

You are doing a beautiful job. your lessons were quite help ful for me. However,I have a question below.

1. we understood that, we have many tenses(ways) to expess the same indea for example,(please see the below two sentences).

a)The next bus to Hyderabad arrives at 10:00 pm

b)the next bus to Hyderabad is going to arrive at 10:00 pm.


The above two sentences are conveying the same idea.

I am also confused with many other sentenses of these kind. Is there any rule that tells what(tense) exactly to use and when.

And also, Do you see any difference in the above two sentences?

thanks a lot.
pruthvi

Anonymous said...

Hi Faisal,

You are doing a beautiful job. your lessons were quite help ful for me. However,I have a question below.

1. we understood that, we have many tenses(ways) to expess the same indea for example,(please see the below two sentences).

a)The next bus to Hyderabad arrives at 10:00 pm

b)the next bus to Hyderabad is going to arrive at 10:00 pm.


The above two sentences are conveying the same idea.

I am also confused with many other sentenses of these kind. Is there any rule that tells what(tense) exactly to use and when.

And also, Do you see any difference in the above two sentences?

thanks a lot.
pruthvi

faisal Samiullah said...

Dear Pruthvi, there isn't any difference in the above mentioned sentences. Both of them deliver the same idea. You should not be getting confused. You just need to know the usage of different things, the way they are used.

And as far as delivering the same idea using different structures is concerned, observe the following examples:

a) I can swim.
b) I know how to swim.
c) I am able to swim.

Likewise,
a) The next bus to Hyderabad arrives at 10.
b) The next bus to Hyderabad is going to arrive at 10.
c) The next bus to Hyderabad will arrive at 10.

All of the above sentences usually deliver the same idea.

Anonymous said...

Helo Faisal, thanks for your good work.

It would be nice if you could also post lessons on "conditionals".

Anonymous said...

YOU ARE DOING GOOD JOB (GOD BLESS U

jeckie said...

faisal you are the responsible person, which is getting people language improved, i appreciate to you:-

i m feeling that i have to need to know more about the english including structure, i m stucking now between two sentences

faisal these two senteces must be same?

1) he makes me do his wark
2) his wark is done by me

could same meaning be taken by these both sentences? what would be the difference

it had better if you load individual topic on your website about the structure

Hope your reply would be much appreciated regards,

you should be called the Golden warld, i much respect you

Anonymous said...

hello sir, u hav done a good work. I was really finding a website to learn english a long time. Now only i got through u.thanx a lot and pls go ahead. I am sure the people who are interested and having the thirst to learn english are very greatful to you.my humble request is include some video conversation. it would be more useful to understand the language. thanx u once again.
Vishwa..

Anonymous said...

Assalam u alaikum

Are you going to post more grammar lesson or this is it it's a wonderful site and i hope you'll keep continue posting more lesson for us so we can learn and one more thing when we try to check the answer for some of the exercise nothing comes up.Thank's again for wonderful job.

faisal Samiullah said...

Walaikum us salaam, this is just the beginning, there are many lessons to be posted. I will try to solve the problem about the checking of answers soon.

Anonymous said...

atif
thanx sir

Asad said...

Hi i am a new user of this site plz teach me

faisal Samiullah said...

Please browse the site. The site works fine in fire fox.

Anonymous said...

ASSALAM-o-AlYKUM ,

Hi. Hope that u will be fine..
Plz can u describe me about ACTIVE AND PASSIVE.. and if possible plz make lecture of direct & indirect.... Thank You

Sayyar yousuf zai....

Anonymous said...

Assalam u alaikum
Once again thank's for wonderfull job, you are helping lot's of people, i have mentioned before in advance level the sound system is not working anymore and you have replied to me you will check, It's still not working and that help alot in learning process and pls continue posting your lecture we are eagar to learn so much from you, once again you are wonderfull teacher may Allah bless you and give you lot's of reward.
Thank's

faisal Samiullah said...

Hopefully I will solve the problem this Sunday, InshAllah.

Anonymous said...

i don't have words to praise you for your work.

Anonymous said...

Assalam u alaikum
Thank's again for a wonderfull job may Allah bless you with lots of awards in this life and hereafter, as i mentioned before the sound system in tenses isn't working, can you pls look at it.

faisal Samiullah said...

Walaikum us salaam, Thanks for the appreciation. The website where I have uploaded the audio has some problems. Moreover, I have lost the the original audio files. I will have to make the audio lessons again. It will take some time.

Anonymous said...

salam: i have 1st time visit this site n very glad to see .i want to laert englsih hope it will be helpful , i have read present simpe tense which is use 4 proverbs also :for example: haste is weste or honesty is the best policy so my question is why we use "IS" there? im so confused plz tell me somethng about it thnxs n GOD blees u

faisal Samiullah said...

Please go through Unit 1 Verb to be. It will clear everything.

maryum said...

i have difficulty in solving these questions,will u please fill them with correct form of verb.
1.he usually(drinks)coffee but today he (drink) tea.
2.he always (say) that he will mend the window but he never (do) it.
3.all kinds of fruits are (grow) in swat.

farhan said...

Thank you faisal, your website is really helpful you are doing great job keep it up!

zafar said...

plz tell me where the excercise?

Anonymous said...

thank u faisal sir u r doing a great job

Anonymous said...

ASLAM O ALAIKUM BHAI!
THANKS A LOT FOR PROVIDING YOUR CORDIAL EFFORT TO THE PEOPLES WHO MAY HAVE SOME EFFORTS BUT NOT CORDIAL....SO IT WILL HELP TO QUINCH THE LEARNING THIRST APPROPRIATLY ....IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE BEEN DRINKING WATER FROM DIRTY POND AND NOW SOMEBODY IS PROVIDING US DISTILLED WATER...JAZAK ALLAH KHAIR BHAI JAN.

Anonymous said...

sir tenes k lecture kidr hain

Anonymous said...

Faisal bhai mujhe itni enlish nhe ati me kya karo apni raai dn

Anonymous said...

hello faisal your website realy help full nice lagy rho

WAHEED said...

ASSALMUALAIKUM FAISAL BHAI MUJHE APP SE EK SAWAL KARNA HAI WOH YEH HAI ISS VIDEO CLIP MEIN SIREF TENSE KE BAREY MEIN MAUJOOD HAI.JAISEY KE OF,FROM,TO,TOO,ON,AT,INTO,IN,BY,WITH,BESIDES,BESIDE,BETWEEN,AMONG,OVER,FOR,ABOUT,AGAINST,,MIGHT,MUST,AUR OUGHT.ISS KE BAREY MEIN BHI DETAIL VIDEO HO TO ACHA HOTA.YEH CHIZAA KAB AUR KAHA ISTEMAL HOTI HAI AUR KIS TARHA ISTEHMAL KAR.AGAR MUJHE BATAO ACHA HOTA.AAP JO KAM KAR RAHE HAI BUHAT ACHA HAI AUR ALLAH AAP KO NEIK TOUFEEQ DE ISS KAM KE LIYE.AUR APKI UMAR LAMBI HO.AUR MERI DUA HAI KE ALLAH APKO DO JAHAO MEIN KAMIYAB KARE ALLAH HAFIZ.MERA E-MAIL ID HAI WAHEED.NAAM@YAHOO.CO.IN AUR WAHEED.ACCEPT@REDIFFMAIL.COM YEH SAWALO KE JAWAB ISS EMAIL ID PAR BEHJO MAIN APKE JAWAB KA INTEHZAR KARU GA (MOHD WAHEED AHMED,INDIA,HYDERABAD,ANDHRA PARDESH,SE)

WAHEED said...

assalamualaikum faisal bhai main apki lambi umar ki dua karta hun.apka kam buhat acha hai aur sikane ka tarikh bhi acha hai.faisal bhai mere yeh sawal hai kay while,of,too,to,for,about,beside,besides,within,among,over,into,on,at,by,yet,until,and till ke bare main 3,3 example ke sath mein samh jaye to buhat acha hota.jaise ke while kab aur kaha istemal hota hai aur kyu iss sawal ke jawab iss e mail id (waheed.accept@rediffmail.com) par sent karu. main apke mail ka intezar karo ga allah hafiz name mohd waheed ahmed state andhra pradesh,city hyderabad,district,medak,country india.

Anonymous said...

dear faisal sir meine ek book k tense mein did ka used krna parhata tha per ap k tense mein wo nahe hai ?

Anonymous said...

sir when i open tense
future continuous tense it is not open please check that

Anonymous said...

any one tell me that where is exercise?

Anonymous said...

A.A sir hopefully you will be ok. I want to say this that i was looking for a english course and i found your website, it is a very good way to learn english. BUT there are only 46 units in your website what would we done after comleting these units and there are not complete tenses. Pleas help me in this matter.
MARIA

Dream b0y said...

hello sir hwx U I'M UR NEW student i wanna see ur english videos daily every time every sec and every min...:) ur all videos sho0 much NyXx i juxt joined ur classes 1 month ago plx give meh ur mobile number i need ur more help in My study sho0 plx reply meh this is my email (smarty.tahir@hotmail.com)
i'm Tahir razzak ali

Anonymous said...

sorry i can`t understand anything :-(

Anonymous said...

i want to solve the above 3 questions posted by maryum please faisal bhai tell me did i rightly done? thanks
1)he usually drinks coffee but today he drinks tea
2)he always says that he will mend the window but he never does it
3)all kinds of fruits grow in swat

rehman said...

Hi sir,I am a new user plz teach me

Anonymous said...

where is the exercise through i can practise plz guide me

english tenses said...

great study// thanks

sarfaraz hussain said...

sir where is the excercise of presend in difinet

Anonymous said...

slam sir hi..

Anonymous said...

hi sir slam.

Anonymous said...

good job but u should upload training about all networks and networking thank.

EbonieTequilaIla said...

Dear Faisal
Many thanks for help to many people of Pakistan and others.

Anonymous said...

hello sir hwx U I'M UR NEW student i wanna see ur english videos daily every time every sec and every min...
sir please direct indirect ki be videos bana kar up load kary.

Anonymous said...

thanks

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