Can you help me summarize some tenses? I m confused about tenses

Different people will have different answers to this question.

Some people will say 8 tenses, some people will say 10 tenses, some people will say 12 tenses, and some people will say 16 tenses. This is the result of our English teaching for so many years, and after learning English for more than ten years, there is no unity in how many tenses there are in English.

So how many tenses does English have?

In a previous article, we explained the origin of "tense", introduced the 4 basic states of verbs (general, indefinite, progressive, and perfect), combined with 4 types of time (past time, past future time, present tense, future time), and generated 16 basic tenses in English.

Figure 14 when state binding 4.

The sixteen core tenses of Figure 2 and Figure 2 are transformed into ** forms as follows:

Figure 3 and Figure 3 show the sixteen central tenses of the English language.

As we mentioned in the previous article on "tenses", the concept of "tense" in English can be further expanded and superimposed to derive new tenses, as shown in the following diagram:

Figure 4 and Figure 4 show that on the basis of Figure 1, the "completion state" and the "progressive state" are combined, and a new binding state "complete progressive state" (red line) is derived.

The 5 states are combined with the 4 tenses, thus expanding from the 16 core tenses to 20 tenses, as shown in the following table:

Figure 5 So far, is there only these 20 tenses in English?

On the basis of Figure 1, we combine the "perfect state and the indefinite state" to derive a new bound state "complete indefinite", and when 4 is combined, we add 4 new "perfect indefinite tenses" as shown in the following table

Figure 6 shows that the tense system of English is basically complete. Figure 6** shows the above 4 lines of the 16 core tenses (basic tenses) of English, and the following 2 lines are the superposition of "tenses and tenses" to create new tenses.

Each tense shows the embodiment of a kind of thinking, such as the normal and transient thinking of the general state; Indefinite, progressive, complete, and so on.

The above tense forms can also be combined with passive voice, so as to expand the new tense form of predicate verbs, but the essence is still the same, except that the active words in the predicate verbs are transformed from "active" to "passive".

Okay, so by now, you should know how many tenses there are in English!

Each tense covers a kind of "space-time" interval expression, and the combination of all tense systems together completely covers the expression of the entire universe space-time. Therefore, if your tense is messy, missing, or not systematic enough, then your chain of expression of "time and space" is broken, flawed, and imperfect, and the most direct result of this is that you cannot express and understand it accurately and delicately. This is why we need to establish a complete system of tenses at the macro level, and understand the principles behind the tense in a delicate and thorough way at the micro level.

The author of this article, Xie Rui, is the author of the book "English Thinking: Deciphering the Principles of English Grammar" and the series of courses "English Thinking: Ten Lessons to Establish a Perfect Grammar System".

In addition to denoting actions or states of existence that occur regularly or habitually, the present tense is also used to denote objective facts, truths, and natural phenomena, and it is also used to denote actions that are more fixed, planned, and prescribed.

This sentence means that China will enter a new five-year plan next year. This is used to illustrate the action that is going to happen as planned, so the simple present tense is used.

Other example sentences such as: the supermarket opens at 10:00 tomorrowThe supermarket opens tomorrow at 10 a.m.

Although the time is tomorrow, the action of open is an action that occurs regularly according to a plan, so it is still in the normal present tense.

You can use the future tense, but it sounds different from the tone of the usual present tense.

In Chinese,Will you marry me? I'll marry you.

This is the future tense, which means that I may marry you in the future, but I can't say it right now, we are talking about the future.

Will you marry me? I'll marry you! This is the simple present tense, which means that I am also willing to marry you now, although the action is happening in the future, but I also recognize it now.

When you use the simple present tense in this sentence, it is the feeling of the latter. Not only is it possible in the future, but it is basically so determined now, and that's it.

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The importance of the word tense has been clarified, i.e., "tense" and "tense".

An accurate and nuanced understanding of "tenses" and "tenses" is the key to mastering all tenses and tones in English.

Especially for the connotation of "time", the concept of time should be crushed, and the delicate understanding and experience.

The concept of "tense" includes not only past time, present time, future time, past future time, but also the concept of "big, small, more, less, relative, absolute, true, and false" of time, which are all key to accurately understanding the English tense.

"State" is the state in which things are located. Things are born, they die, they exist, and a thing is always in such states. The combination of "tense" and "tense" forms the English "tense". That is, what time and state are in which it is in the tense.

Tenses are divided into true tenses (true general tense, amorphous, progressive, perfect, perfect, continuous, etc.) and non-real tenses, (non-real general, indefinite, progressive, perfect, perfect, continuous, etc.) i.e., the subjunctive mood.

The passive voice also belongs to the category of tenses, which also includes the passivity of the true tense; Passive and non-true tenses.

An accurate understanding and grasp of tenses is the key to understanding the English language. That is, to accurately and delicately understand the thinking, connotation, and principle contained in each tense, as well as its comprehensive application.

For example: What is the precise definition of simple present tense? What is the thinking implicit in the simple present tense? What occasions are the present tenses applied in the general present tense, etc., and the same applies to the indefinite tense, continuous tense, perfect tense, perfect continuous tense.

Therefore, it is necessary to have a comprehensive and systematic grasp of every tense of English, and any tense may appear in the English that we will be exposed to in the future, or in the application.

The complete tense table, voice table, and tone table are given below as follows:

Complete 20 true tenses.

Complete 20 authentic passive voices.

A table of combinations of the subjunctive mood of the main and subordinate clauses.

Compare the above tenses, voices, and tones** to see if your knowledge system is complete, and if there are any gaps, you must make up for them.

The above only lists the predicate verb tense part of English sentences, and the non-predicate verbs in English also have relative tense voices, and have their complete framework structure system, so they should also be deeply understood and mastered. Any lack of knowledge structure of English grammar may lead to misunderstandings due to incomplete understanding in future learning, so it is necessary to study systematically and establish a comprehensive, systematic and complete English grammar framework system.

The above ** is excerpted from the book "English Thinking: Deciphering the Principles of English Grammar".

I'll give you a **, at a glance.

It is possible to have a perfect tense, but the situation you are talking about is more concise and authentic with her bike stolen.

No, you cannot.

This construction is with + object + object complement Generally speaking, the verb is used here as an object complement Generally used in the past participle and present participle form The past participle is used in the passive tense and the present participle is used in the active tense.

And the independent nominative structure, how to say, the with composite structure can be used as an independent nominative structure, which is also one of the types.

Past continuous tense (action performed at a specific time in the past) Past perfect tense (denoting past past, i.e., action that occurred before an action that took place in the past, and the past tense appears in a simple sentence).

Simple past tense (actions that took place in the past time).

Present perfect tense (past events have an impact on the present, generally there will be some suggestive words such as: since + time point for + time period, ever, never, just, before, yet, etc.).

Past continuous tense (long action done in the past time).

Past perfect tense (past past, colloquially speaking, is something between things) simple past tense (something done in the past time).

Present perfect tense (things in the past that have had an impact on the present, or have been in this state from the past to the present) can be asked in the simple future tense (things to be done, not to be done or intended to be done).