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How do we make various English language tenses? To make and understand English language tenses you should know English language classification of sentences. You should know about classes of words, their inflections, their functions, relations in the sentence, and rules for how to speak and write English words and sentences correctly. There are specific words or word forms for every English language tense. In certain regions, you may come across present progressive tense instead of present continuous tense. Both are correct. These are different names for the same tense in various regions. There are general rules applicable to tense. There are specific rules applicable to specific tense. One way to determine whether the tense of a sentence is correct is to examine the auxiliary verb. 'Has' and 'have' are present tense auxiliaries. 'Had' is a past tense auxiliary. 'Will' is a future tense auxiliary. Not all present, past, and future tenses have these auxiliaries. Another way is examine the verb form of the main verb. Main verb or auxiliary verb only cannot make a tense. We need to place pronouns, nouns and other classes of words properly, depending on whether the sentence is declarative or interrogative. Does an exclamatory sentence have a past or future tense? Does an imperative sentence have a past or future tense? Imperative and exclamatory sentences have only present simple tense: Is that correct? Does an exclamatory sentence have a past or future tense? Generally only present tense, but it occasionally can have a past tense, as in “Sit down,” he exclaimed. Does an imperative sentence have a past or future tense? No What are some of the examples? See above. Imperative and exclamatory sentences have only present simple tense: Is that correct? Generally yes, but with an exception like the one above. |