«How many times in the English language?" - This question usually asked by those who are just beginning to learn the language.And in the best case, get the answer: "Oh, a lot!Names complicated and confusing! ".Well, and at worst they are beginning to frighten, sometimes does get discouraging or improve already acquired knowledge once.
From my perspective, it's not so difficult.Rather, if you study the theory, the theme of "verb tenses in English", as indeed any other, always turns into a confusing set of terms and names.This new and agree, is not the most simple and easily understood, the material should be made systematically and in small portions, and only in this case, the student is guaranteed to be a success.
In principle, it seems to me that the question of how many times in the English language is not fundamental.Essence because not the number, but in the understanding of the information and its application in practice.
So English - tenses.A brief description of.
the same way as in our native Russian, all the action expressed by the English verb, can occur in the past (Past), the present (Present) or future (Future).
In addition, the English language is still divided into four, unusual for Russian-speaking person, group:
• Group Simple / Indefinite (Unknown / Simple).It describes the action, as a fact, that happens all the time, or regularly repeated from time to time.
• Group Continuous (Long).It describes what is happening in terms of its duration or length.Formed with the help of the verb to be and adding the ending -ing to the main verb (predicate);
• Group Perfect (achievements).Show that the action had resulted in any particular point in time.The method of education: to have (has), acting as an auxiliary verb + past participle form;
• Group Perfect-Continuous (fait-long).Even the name is not difficult to guess that it determines the characteristics of the times as the perfect and long-term group: describes the action that lasted some specific period of time and ended up to a certain point in time.Used 2 auxiliary verb - to have (has) and been, and the main verb (the verb) is the ending -ing.
Now be careful - in order to correctly count how many times in the English language, you need to remember that each of the groups listed above, may be expressed as in the present and the past and future tenses.That
The result is twelve times.Group
1. Simple:
• is current.a simpler time, English.Present Simple Tense;
I usually wake up at 10. - I usually wake up at 10 o'clock.
• Past.a simpler time, English.Past Simple Tense;
Yesterday I woke up at 10. - Yesterday I woke up at 10 o'clock.
• future.a simpler time, English.Future Simple Tense.
I'll wake up at 10 tomorrow.- Tomorrow I'll wake up at 10 o'clock.
2. Group Continuous:
• is current.a long time, English.Present Continuous Tense;
Now I'm working.- At the moment I'm working.
• Past.a long time, English.Past Continuous Tense;
Yesterday I was working from 9 till 11. - Yesterday I worked from 9 to 11.
• future.a long time, English.Future Continuous Tense.
Tomorrow at this very minute I'll be working.- This time tomorrow I'll be working.
3. Group Perfect
• is current.has accomplished the time, English.Present Perfect Tense;
I've finished work by 10. - I finish work for 10 hours.
• Past.has accomplished the time, English.Past Perfect Tense;
Yesterday I had finished work by 10. - Yesterday I finished work to 10 hours.
• future.has accomplished the time, English.Future Perfect Tense.
Tomorrow I'll have finish work by 10. - Tomorrow I will finish the job in 10 hours.
4. Group Perfect-Continuous:
• is current.It is finished, for a long time, English.Present Perfect-Continuous;
I've been staying in NY for 3 years already.- I live in New York for three years.
• Past.It is finished, for a long time, English.Past Perfect-Continuous;
By 2011 I'd been living NY for 3 years already.- In 2011, I lived in New York for three years.
• future.It is finished, for a long time, English.Future Perfect-Continuous.
By 2013 I'll have been staying in NY for five years.- In 2013, I will be living in New York for 5 years.
we answer the question, how many times in English.Their twelve, three times in each of four groups.And, as you can see for yourself, although the system time in this foreign language is quite different from the one we used to use in the home, some parallel conduct is still possible.
And I almost forgot one very important thing: an indisputable advantage of the English language - is a strict order, consistency and complete subordination to the laws of grammar.
