How To Understand 16 Tenses

Mostly English learners, especially for non native speakers, understanding tenses is very difficult.   find assumption that English learners see that tenses is a formula and can not escape from it. Basically, formula is one of the ways or methods for teachers or writers to explain the details of tenses. Besides, others describes it in a picture or an illustration. How difficult the tenses is the purpose I write here to contribute how to understand tenses.

Time and Tenses

Talking about tenses can not leave what the time is. Tenses is a kind of final research of experts in English language. Now, let's think that tenses is nothing, I mean you should think first that tenses is not ever in the earth. Just think about "Time". 

Let's continue~!

Our planet has 3 dimensions of time; past, present/now and future. Whatever we say in our own language must include one of the 3 dimensions of time.

For example:

I met her yesterday.
She wants me to call him now.
I will leave this city in five minutes.

From the examples above we see that time is described by saying a sign of time, e.g. yesterday, now and the word /will/. Sometimes we do not use them to indicate at when something occurs in our daily life.

For example:

I am working in the company.
She talks to me too much.

From the two sentences above, we see that time is indicated by using a certain verbs; /am working/ and /talks/.
In learning tenses, we will see that /talk/ is different of /talks/ as well as /talk/ is different of /talked/.

Study this follow!

(a) She talked to me yesterday.
(b) She talks to me every morning.

In (a), we use the sentence when we would like to express something happen in the past time. We then call it

Simple Past Tense

In (b), we use it in our daily activity. We then call it "

Simple Present Tense

So, what is the tenses actually?

Tenses

Tenses is a collection of time which has been formed into 16 forms of time. Experts, long time ago, learned how and at what time speakers (native speakers) say something in related to 3 dimensions of time. From the examples illustrated above, we can see that there are sixteen (16) forms of time found by the experts and they then named it "16 Tenses". In other words, tenses is an extract of 3 dimensions of time in this earth which has tight relation to the way or the structure native speakers speak their language (English).

Let's pick one of the tenses to discuss!

Simple Present Tense.

Simple present tense is used to express something that indicates our daily acitvities, routinity, habitual action and general truth. When we say something that has relation to the (italic) expressions above, we have to use simple present tense structure or patterns. How is the structure?

First, Use the first verb or present verb, e.g. speak, talk, sing, wake, get, sit, etc.
Second, use /do not/-/don't/ or /does not/-/doesn't/ to express negation or negative statement.
Third, use /do/ or /does/ to express interrogative sentence.
Forth, remember when you use /do/ or /does/ because it depends on the subject.

Now, let's see that the illustration above is one of the rules in simple present tense. When we would like to say (in English) something happen or related to the habitual action, etc, we have to use the rules in our sentences or expressions.

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