VERB TENSE SIMPLE AND PERFECT Conjugating Verbs A

VERB TENSE SIMPLE AND PERFECT

Conjugating Verbs • A conjugation is a list of the singular and plural forms of a verb in a particular tense.

Conjugating Verbs • For regular verbs, conjugation is pretty easy. • A regular verb forms its past tense and past participle forms by adding -ed. –walk, walked, have walked

Conjugating Verbs • For irregular verbs, students will need to determine the past participle form of the verb before conjugating it. • An irregular verb changes its stem to form the past tense and/or past participle forms. –eat, ate, have eaten

Conjugating Verbs • For now, let’s start with a regular verb.

Conjugation of the Simple Past Tense of Walk Past Singular Plural I walked you walked he, she, it walked we walked you walked they walked

Past • I walked downtown yesterday.

Conjugation of the Simple Present Tense of Walk Singular I walk Present you walk he, she, it walks Plural we walk you walk they walk

Present • I walk downtown all the time.

Conjugation of the Simple Future Tense of Walk Singular Future Plural I will walk we will walk you will walk he, she, it will walk they will walk

Future • I shall (will) walk downtown tomorrow.

Perfect Tense • In general, the perfect tenses describe actions that have an ending point that occurs before a new action begins.

Perfect Tense • Perfect tense begins with the past participle form of the verb • run, ran, run (irregular verb) • walk, walked (regular verb)

Perfect Tense • The past perfect, present perfect, and future perfect tenses are formed adding different forms of the helping verb have.

Perfect Tense • The past tense of have is had. • The present tense of have is has or have. • The future tense of have is will have.

Past Perfect Tense The past perfect tense is used for an action that happened in the past and stopped before another action (which also happened in the past) began. Past Event One Present l Event Two l Future

Conjugation of the Perfect Tense of Walk Singular I have walked Present you have walked Perfect he, she, it has walked Past Perfect Future Perfect Plural we have walked you have walked they have walked I had walked we had walked you had walked he, she, it had walked they had walked I will have walked you will have walked he, she, it will have walked we will have walked you will have walked they will have walked

Conjugation of the Perfect Tense of Walk • Present Perfect- have walked • Past Perfect- had walked • Future Perfect- will have walked • Memorize the pattern of these helping verbs.

Past Perfect Tense • I had walked home before the storm began.

Present Perfect Tense The present perfect tense is used to describe actions which have continued right up to the present, but may or may not continue. Past Present Event One ? Future ? ?

Present Perfect Tense They tend to imply that something else is about to begin to happen.

Present Perfect Tense • I have walked across downtown, and I need to sit.

Future Perfect Tense • I shall have walked downtown before the fireworks begin.

Future Perfect Tense The future perfect tense signifies a future action which will end before a separate future action begins. Past Present Future Event One l Event Two

Other Tenses • There are other tenses of verbs that you will encounter, such as the Progressive Tense. • However, for the seventh grade language arts standard, the simple tense and perfect tense are the two that you need to master.

• Let’s practice using these two tenses.