TENSES Flashcards
By the time / we will get out tickets and enter the cinema theatre,/ the show will have already begun./no error
Gowri told me / his name after / he left./no error
Use ‘had’ in place of ‘was’.
‘ he had left ‘ is the correct
If two actions take place in the past one after the other, the first action will be in past perfect tense and the second action will be in simple past .
By the time / we will get out tickets and enter the cinema theatre,/ the show will have already begun./no error
Remove ‘‘will’’ . ‘we get our tickets’ is correct. if in a sentence two actions will have taken place one after the other in future, the first action will be in simple present tense and second will be in future perfect tense.
Old age and infirmity / had began to / catch up with him./no error
’ had began ‘ should be replaced with ‘had begun’ . had + v3 form will be used.
since he joined / this post, he did not take / any bribe. /no error
Use ‘he has not taken’ in place of ‘he did not take’
since + simple past + present perfect tense
since , s+v2 s+has+v3 (present perfect tense)
he has read four plays /written by shakespeare / by the end of his vacation./no error
use ‘he will have read’,in place of ‘he has read’ .
ac action to be completed at certain future point of time will be future perfect tense.
For time immemorial / sea shells have been used by man / in many ways./no error
The little boy / had been waiting for his turn / since a long time ./no error
‘time immemorial’ denotes ‘point of time’ and not ‘period of time’ .use ‘since’ in place of ‘for’
This is turned out to be / one of our most successful projects / and we have made quite / a large profit from it./ no error
change ‘this is turned out’ into ‘this has turned out’ as the sentence if of present perfect tense.
The present perfect tense is one of the common verb tenses in English, used to show an action that happened in the past that is directly related to the present, such as actions that are still continuing or that indicate a change over time.
Don’t let the name confuse you—even though the word present is there, the present perfect tense deals with actions that happened or started in the past.
since the trip home / was expensive I / did not went home / during the holidays./no eror
‘did not’ is followed by V1 . ‘did not go’ will be used
