Tenses Table

TENSES TABLE

Tense means moment/time so tenses mean moments/times. There are 16 Tenses in English. Almost of the people say, especially for us, Indonesian (that have English as a foreign language for us), that it is one of difficult materials to be learned. Both to learn by heart the names or even to use each of it.

Well, I think we can’t make it easier to learn by heart “it” because we will make it in the form of table. So we can do it by playing the names of  it. I call it Tenses Table.

Nu	A	B	C	D
1	Present Tense	Past Tense	Present Future Tense	Past Future Tense
2	Present Continuous Tense	Past Continuous Tense	Present Future Continuous Tense	Past Future Continuous Tense
3	Present Perfect Tense	Past Perfect Tense	Present Future Perfect Tense	Past Future Perfect Tense
4	Present Perfect Continuous Tense	Past Perfect Continuous Tense	Present Future Perfect Continuous Tense	Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Is it easy enough to get or learn by heart the names of the 16 tenses ?

Then, we can find the formula out of each tense in Active Form plus the examples or even the Passive Form too.

Here is the table would be.

PASSIVE VOICE

Nu	A	B	C	D
1	Present Tense	Past Tense	Present Future Tense	Past Future Tense
Act	S + V1/s/es + (O) + …	S + V2/ed + (O) + …	S + will/shall + V1 + O	S + would/should + V1 + O
	She studies English	She studied English	She will study English	She would study English
Pas	S + to be (is/am/are) + V3/ed + by + the doer	S + to be (was/were) + V3/ed + by + the doer	S + will/shall + be + V3/ed + by + the doer	S + would/should + be + V3/ed + by + the doer
	English is studied by her	English was studied by her	English will be studied by her	English would be studied by her
2	Present Continuous Tense	Past Continuous Tense	Present Future Continuous Tense	Past Future Continuous Tense
Act	S + to be (is/am/are) + Ving + O	S + to be (was/were) + Ving + O	S + will/shall + be + Ving + O	S + would/should + be + Ving + O
	She is studying English	She was studying English	She will be studying English	She would be studying English
Pas	S + to be (is/am/are) + being + V3/ed + by + the doer	S + to be (was/were) + being + V3/ed + by + the doer	S + will/shall + be + being + V3/ed + by + the doer	S + would/should + be + being + V3/ed + by + the doer
	English is being studied by her	English was being studied by her	English will be being studied by her	English would be being studied by her
3	Present Perfect Tense	Past Perfect Tense	Present Future Perfect Tense	Past Future Perfect Tense
Act	S + has/have + V3/ed + O	S + had + V3/ed + O	S + will/shall + have + V3/ed + O	S + would/should + have + V3/ed + O
	She has studied English	She had studied English	She will have studied English	She would have studied English
Pas	S + has/have + been +V3/ed +by + the doer	S + had + been +V3/ed +by + the doer	S + will/shall + have + been + V3/ed + by + the doer	S + would/should + have + been + V3/ed + by + the doer
	English has been studied by her	English had been studied by her	English will have been studied by her	English would have been studied by her
4	Present Perfect Continuous Tense	Past Perfect Continuous Tense	Present Future Perfect Continuous Tense	Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense
Act	S + has/has + been + Ving + O	S + had + been + Ving + O	S + will/shall + have + been + Ving + O	S + would/should + have + been + Ving + O
	She has been studying English	She had been studying English	She will have been studying English	She would have been studying English
Pas	S + has/have + been + being + V3/ed + by + the doer	S + had + been + being + V3/ed + by + the doer	S + will/shall + have + been + being + V3/ed + by + the doer	S + would/should + have + been + being + V3/ed + by + the doer
	English has been being studied by her	English had been being studied by her	English will have been being studied by her	English would have been being studied by her

Note :

1.      Act = Active Form

2.      Pas = Passive Form

3.      The Formula of Continouous  : To Be (is/am/are or was/were or be) + Ving

4.      The Formula of Perfect           : has/have/had + V3/ed

5.      After Modals (will/shall or would/should) + V1

6.      The Formula of Passive Form : To Be + V3/ed

7.      The RED (Colour) shows the key words/different names

8.      The PINK (Colour & underlined) shows the key/different formula between Coloumn A & B or C & D

9.      The BLUE (Colour & underlined) shows the key/different words between Coloumn A & B or C & D
  *** Yuyun Indarwati, S. Pd ***

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