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    English Tense Usage.

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    The document discusses the usages of different verb tenses in English. It explains that the simple present tense is used to express general truths, repeated actions, or unchanging situations. The simple past tense is used to talk about a specific time in the past. The present perfect tense is used to talk about unfinished actions that began in the past and continue to the present, or finished actions with results in the present. The past perfect tense is used to discuss a finished action that occurred before another point in the past, or something that started in the past and continued to another past time or action.

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    The document discusses the usages of different verb tenses in English. It explains that the simple present tense is used to express general truths, repeated actions, or unchanging situations. The simple past tense is used to talk about a specific time in the past. The present perfect tense is used to talk about unfinished actions that began in the past and continue to the present, or finished actions with results in the present. The past perfect tense is used to discuss a finished action that occurred before another point in the past, or something that started in the past and continued to another past time or action.

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    The document discusses the usages of different verb tenses in English. It explains that the simple present tense is used to express general truths, repeated actions, or unchanging situations. The simple past tense is used to talk about a specific time in the past. The present perfect tense is used to talk about unfinished actions that began in the past and continue to the present, or finished actions with results in the present. The past perfect tense is used to discuss a finished action that occurred before another point in the past, or something that started in the past and continued to another past time or action.

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    Usages of tenses

    Simple present tense.


    1. To express general truths , repeated actions or unchanging
    situations.
    Eg. She works in Dubai.
    The earth goes around the sun.
    2. When expressing world truths.
    Eg. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
    Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
    3. For actions like since and feeling.
    Eg. I like spicy foods.
    She sounds like Madonna.
    4. To talk about scheduled future events.
    Eg. My plane arrives at 10 am.
    The movie starts in 30 minutes.
    Uses of simple past tense.
    1. When we want to talk about a specific time in the past.
    Eg. I was in Hawassa two weeks ago.
    The rain stopped falling in the afternoon.
    Usages of present perfect tense.
    1. When we want to talk about unfinished action that started in
    the past and continues to the present.
    Eg. She has lived in Manchester for five years.
    I have worked here for six months.
    2. Life experience these are actions or events that happened
    during a person’s life.
    Eg. I have been to Tokyo.
    She has not eaten sushi.
    3. We use it with an unfinished time word (this month, this week,
    last year etc.).
    Eg. I haven’t seen her this month.
    She has drunk two cups of coffee today.
    4. A finished action with a result in the present we often use the
    present perfect to talk about something that happened in the
    recent past.
    Eg. I have lost my keys(so I can’t get into my house).
    They have missed the bus(so they will be late).
    5. To talk about something that happened recently, even if there
    is no clear evidence.
    Eg. The prime minister has given a speech.
    I have just seen Ahmed.
    Usages of past perfect tense.
    1. A finished action before a second point in the past.
    Eg. When we arrived the film had started.(the film started then
    we arrived.
    He had read different types of books before you came.
    2. Something that started in the past and continued to another
    action or time in the past.
    Eg. On the 20th of July, I had worked here for six months.
    When he graduated, he had been in London for six years.
    3. To talk about unreal or imaginary things in the past.
    Eg. If I had known you were ill, I would have visited you.
    I wish I hadn’t gone to bed so late.

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