📚 Mastering English Grammar Tenses: A Complete Guide

📚 Mastering English Grammar Tenses: A Complete Guide

English tenses are the heart of grammar 💓. Whether you’re speaking, writing, or answering in competitive exams, tenses decide your accuracy.

This guide covers:
✅ All 12 Tenses
✅ Simple Real-Life Examples
✅ Smart Tricks
✅ Exam Tips
✅ Practice Questions (Solved + Unsolved)

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🧠 What Are Tenses?

Tenses show the time of an action.
We divide tenses into 3 types:

1. Past (⏳ Already happened)
2. Present (🔴 Happening now)
3. Future (🔮 Will happen)

Each of these has 4 forms:

• Simple
• Continuous
• Perfect
• Perfect Continuous

So total = 3 × 4 = 12 Tenses

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✅ PRESENT TENSE

1. Simple Present

🕐 Structure: Subject + V1 + s/es + Object
📌 Example: She eats rice.
👉 Used for habits, facts, daily routines.

💡 Tip: Use it with adverbs like always, usually, never.

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2. Present Continuous

🕐 Structure: Subject + is/am/are + V1+ing + Object
📌 Example: I am studying now.
👉 Used for actions happening right now.

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3. Present Perfect

🕐 Structure: Subject + has/have + V3 + Object
📌 Example: They have finished lunch.
👉 Used for recently completed actions.

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4. Present Perfect Continuous

🕐 Structure: Subject + has/have been + V1+ing + Object + since/for
📌 Example: She has been reading for 2 hours.
👉 Used for actions that started in the past & are still continuing.

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✅ PAST TENSE

5. Simple Past

🕐 Structure: Subject + V2 + Object
📌 Example: He went to Delhi.
👉 Used for actions completed in the past.

6. Past Continuous

🕐 Structure: Subject + was/were + V1+ing + Object
📌 Example: I was sleeping at 10 PM.
👉 Used for actions happening at a specific time in the past.

7. Past Perfect

🕐 Structure: Subject + had + V3 + Object
📌 Example: They had left before I arrived.
👉 Used to show the earlier of two past actions.

8. Past Perfect Continuous

🕐 Structure: Subject + had been + V1+ing + Object + since/for
📌 Example: He had been playing for an hour.
👉 Used to show long past action before another.

✅ FUTURE TENSE

9. Simple Future

🕐 Structure: Subject + will/shall + V1 + Object
📌 Example: We will go tomorrow.
👉 Used for future plans or predictions.

10. Future Continuous

🕐 Structure: Subject + will be + V1+ing + Object
📌 Example: She will be singing at 5 PM.
👉 Used to show an action in progress in the future.

11. Future Perfect

🕐 Structure: Subject + will have + V3 + Object
📌 Example: They will have finished the work by 8 PM.
👉 Used to show completed future action before a certain time.

12. Future Perfect Continuous

🕐 Structure: Subject + will have been + V1+ing + Object + since/for
📌 Example: He will have been studying for 3 hours.
👉 Used for actions continuing till a time in future.

🎯 TRICKS TO REMEMBER

💡 “HCP” Rule:

• H = Habit (Simple Present)
• C = Current (Present Continuous)
• P = Past done (Present Perfect)

⏰ Use “time words” as signals:

• Just, already, since, for, yesterday, tomorrow etc.

📈 Learn 1 tense daily → revise → practice 5 sentences.

📝 Solved Questions with Answers

1. I ____ to school every day.
   👉 go (Simple Present)
2. She ____ a letter now.
   👉 is writing (Present Continuous)
3. They ____ dinner when I called.
   👉 were having (Past Continuous)
4. We ____ the movie by 9 PM.
   👉 will have watched (Future Perfect)
5. I ____ in this house since 2005.
   👉 have been living (Present Perfect Continuous)

🧪 Unsolved Practice Questions

Try these yourself:

1. She ____ (study) French for two years.
2. They ____ (complete) the project yesterday.
3. I ____ (go) to the market at 5 PM tomorrow.
4. He ____ (work) when the lights went off.
5. You ____ (see) this film already?

🏆 Exam Tips

✅ Focus more on Simple, Perfect & Continuous forms.
✅ Highlight time indicators like since, for, by, when.
✅ In error-spotting, look for tense mismatch.
✅ Practice WH-questions with different tenses.
✅ Create your own timeline diagrams for clarity.

📢 Learn. Practice. Speak.
With this guide from Grandmaster Bikram Sutradhar | bAstronautWay & SirBikramSutradhar Team| , you’ll never get confused in English Tenses again!

🧠 REMEMBER: Mastery comes from small daily practice! 🚀

📘 What Are V1, V2, V3?

They refer to forms of verbs in English grammar. Every verb has three main forms:

Form	Name	Example (Verb: Go)	Emoji Meaning
V1	Base Form	go	🔹 Present
V2	Past Simple	went	⏳ Past
V3	Past Participle	gone	✅ Used in Perfect Tenses

📌 Example: Verb – Eat

Form	Word	Used In
V1	eat	Simple Present → I eat rice. 🍚
V2	ate	Simple Past → I ate rice. 🍽️
V3	eaten	Present Perfect → I have eaten rice. ✅

💡 Quick Reference Chart:

Verb	V1 (Base)	V2 (Past)	V3 (Past Participle)
Go	go	went	gone
Do	do	did	done
See	see	saw	seen
Write	write	wrote	written
Take	take	took	taken
Speak	speak	spoke	spoken

🧠 TIP to Remember:

• ✅ Use V1 in Present Simple: I walk.
• ⏳ Use V2 in Past Simple: I walked.
• ⚡ Use V3 in Perfect Tenses: I have walked.

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CBSE | NCERT Curriculum | Bilingual (English + Hindi)
By Grandmaster Bikram Sutradhar | SirBikramSutradhar | BASTRONAUTWAY

🔬 PHYSICS (भौतिक विज्ञान)

🔢	Chapter Title (English)	अध्याय का नाम (हिंदी)	Page No.
1️⃣	Motion	गति
2️⃣	Force and Laws of Motion	बल तथा गति के नियम
3️⃣	Gravitation	गुरुत्वाकर्षण
4️⃣	Work and Energy	कार्य तथा ऊर्जा
5️⃣	Sound	ध्वनि

🧪 CHEMISTRY (रसायन विज्ञान)

🔢	Chapter Title (English)	अध्याय का नाम (हिंदी)	Page No.
1️⃣	Matter in Our Surroundings	हमारे आस-पास के पदार्थ
2️⃣	Is Matter Around Us Pure?	क्या हमारे आस-पास के पदार्थ शुद्ध हैं?
3️⃣	Atoms and Molecules	परमाणु एवं अणु
4️⃣	Structure of the Atom	परमाणु की संरचना

🧬 BIOLOGY (जीव विज्ञान)

🔢	Chapter Title (English)	अध्याय का नाम (हिंदी)	Page No.
1️⃣	The Fundamental Unit of Life	जीवन की मौलिक इकाई
2️⃣	Tissues	ऊतक
3️⃣	Improvement in Food Resources	धनों में सुधार

📘 ADDITIONAL SECTIONS (अतिरिक्त अनुभाग)

📖 Section	Title (English + Hindi)
🔹	Glossary / पारिभाषिक शब्दावली
🔹	Answer Keys / उत्तरमाला
🔹	Summary / सारांश
🔹	Important Diagrams / महत्वपूर्ण चित्र
🔹	NCERT Exercises / एनसीईआरटी अभ्यास
🔹	Sample Papers & MCQs / मॉडल पेपर व वस्तुनिष्ठ प्रश्न

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chapter 3.  Linear Equations

chapter 4. Quadratic Equations

chapter 5. Arithmetic Progressions

chapter 6. Triangles

chapter 7. Coordinate Geometry

chapter 8. Introduction to Trigonometry

chapter 9. Some Applications of Trigonometry

chapter 10. Circles

chapter 11. Areas Related to Circles

chapter 12. Surface Areas and Volumes

chapter 13. Statistics

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Chapter 1 Chemical Reactions and Equations 
Chapter 2 Acids, Bases and Salts 
Chapter 3 Metals and Non-metals 
Chapter 4 Carbon and its Compounds 
Chapter 5 Life Processes 
Chapter 6 Control and Coordination 
Chapter 7 How do Organisms Reproduce? 
Chapter 8 Heredity 
Chapter 9 Light – Reflection and Refraction 
Chapter 10 The Human Eye and the Colourful World 
Chapter 11 Electricity 
Chapter 12 Magnetic Effects of Electric Current 
Chapter 13 Our Environment

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Table of Contents:

• 12A. Organic Compounds
• 12B. Hydrocarbons: Alkanes
• 12C. Hydrocarbons: Alkenes
• 12D. Hydrocarbons: Alkynes
• 12E. Alcohols
• 12F. Carboxylic Acids
• Exercise 12 MISCELLANEOUS
• Glossary
• Model Question Paper –

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• 💡 Distinguishing reactions, isomer identification, and conversions
• 📘 Full-syllabus revision to boost conceptual clarity and board exam readiness

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📚 Class 9 Science – Complete Table of Contents (विषय-सूची)

CBSE | NCERT Curriculum | Bilingual (English + Hindi)
By Grandmaster Bikram Sutradhar | SirBikramSutradhar | BASTRONAUTWAY

🔬 PHYSICS (भौतिक विज्ञान)

🔢	Chapter Title (English)	अध्याय का नाम (हिंदी)	Page No.
1️⃣	Motion	गति
2️⃣	Force and Laws of Motion	बल तथा गति के नियम
3️⃣	Gravitation	गुरुत्वाकर्षण
4️⃣	Work and Energy	कार्य तथा ऊर्जा
5️⃣	Sound	ध्वनि

🧪 CHEMISTRY (रसायन विज्ञान)

🔢	Chapter Title (English)	अध्याय का नाम (हिंदी)	Page No.
1️⃣	Matter in Our Surroundings	हमारे आस-पास के पदार्थ
2️⃣	Is Matter Around Us Pure?	क्या हमारे आस-पास के पदार्थ शुद्ध हैं?
3️⃣	Atoms and Molecules	परमाणु एवं अणु
4️⃣	Structure of the Atom	परमाणु की संरचना

🧬 BIOLOGY (जीव विज्ञान)

🔢	Chapter Title (English)	अध्याय का नाम (हिंदी)	Page No.
1️⃣	The Fundamental Unit of Life	जीवन की मौलिक इकाई
2️⃣	Tissues	ऊतक
3️⃣	Improvement in Food Resources	धनों में सुधार

📘 ADDITIONAL SECTIONS (अतिरिक्त अनुभाग)

📖 Section	Title (English + Hindi)
🔹	Glossary / पारिभाषिक शब्दावली
🔹	Answer Keys / उत्तरमाला
🔹	Summary / सारांश
🔹	Important Diagrams / महत्वपूर्ण चित्र
🔹	NCERT Exercises / एनसीईआरटी अभ्यास
🔹	Sample Papers & MCQs / मॉडल पेपर व वस्तुनिष्ठ प्रश्न

✅ All content follows the official NCERT Class 9 Science textbook structure. Each chapter will include explanations, bilingual notes, definitions, diagrams, MCQs, FAQs, and practice exercises under the BASTRONAUTWAY learning system.