21st Century Grammar Handbook



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21st century grammar
21st century grammar, transformation, transformation, - - - .pdf;filename*= UTF-8''অনুবাদ চর্চা (প্রথম আলো পত্রিকা থেকে-২৯-০৩-২০২০)-1, 21st century grammar
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Take, took, taken. An irregular verb in its main, past tense, and past participle forms.
Taken. See take.
Taught. See teach.
Teach, taught, taught. An irregular verb in its main, past tense, and past participle
forms.
Tear, tore, torn. An irregular verb in its main, past tense, and past participle forms.
Tell, told, told. An irregular verb in its main, past tense, and past participle forms.
Tense. Verbs vary inform to indicate time of action or condition. The changed forms and time relationships they suggest are called “tenses.”
There are twelve tenses, listed below with examples. It is useful to recognize the variety of tenses available and how they are used to convey nuances of time and other aspects of the actions or conditions that verbs can present.
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RESENT
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ENSE
Present tense is the normal, everyday tense that indicates things happening more or less now The dog snores, the owner complains, and the kids wake up This verb
form can also be used for continuing or persistent actions or conditions Life is long In some circumstances, when other words are used to clarify an expected action in the future, the simple present performs a future function Tomorrow the traveler comes home.”
F
UTURE
T
ENSE

Verbs that depict events or situations in the future are usually in the future tense:
“The day’s snoring will irritate the owner and will wake up the kids Note in present
tense (above) that enough qualifying words in a sentence that specify an action in the future can allow the use of the present tense for future actions or conditions.
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AST
T
ENSE
Actions or conditions cast directly in and limited to the past use the past tense: The dog snored, the owner complained, and the kids woke up.”
P
RESENT
P
ERFECT
T
ENSE
Formed with the auxiliary verb “have” (or has) and the past tense form of a verb,
the present perfect merges the two tenses to depict actions or conditions begun in the past but extending into the present or not completed at a speci c time The dog has snored for years, and the kids have usually gotten up every night as a result.”
F
UTURE
P
ERFECT
T
ENSE
By joining the past tense form of verbs with will have the future perfect depicts things that will end at a de nite moment in the future The dog will have snored for ten years by August, but the kids will have been bothered only for the last two years in the new house where the dog sleeps in the hall.”
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AST
P
ERFECT
T
ENSE
Combining had with the past tense form of a verb, the past perfect conveys a sense of action or condition ended at a speci c moment in the past, often before some other event in the past The dog had snored that night, but the kids did not wake up.”
P
RESENT
P
ROGRESSIVE
T
ENSE
This tense combines the present
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