VERB TENSES

Introduction

learning about tenses

What is Grammar?

Grammar is the system of a language. People sometimes describe grammar as the "rules" of a language; but in fact no language has rules. If we use the word "rules", we suggest that somebody created the rules first and then spoke the language, like a new game. But languages did not start like that. Languages started by people making sounds which evolved into words, phrases and sentences. No commonly-spoken language is fixed. All languages change over time. What we call "grammar" is simply a reflection of a language at a particular time.

Do we need to study grammar to learn a language? The short answer is"no". Very many people in the world speak their own, native language without having studied its grammar. Children start to speak before they even know the word "grammar". But if you are serious about learning a foreign language, the long answer is "yes, grammar can help you to learn a language more quickly and more efficiently." It's important to think of grammar as something that can help you, like a friend. When you understand the grammar (or system) of a language, you can understand many things yourself, without having to ask a teacher or look in a book.

Task

The student’s tasks :

  • to define what a verb is
  • be able to identify it upon seeing a sentence
  • The students should also be able to use the verbs in their different forms correctly by filling up the blanks in the exercises attached
  • The attached, they should be able to identify the verb tenses used in each sentence
  • they have to formulate an essay using the correct tenses of the verbs with consistency.
Process

English requires a thorough understanding of how verbs are used. Even the best speakers and writers sometimes have some troubles in choosing the appropriate or correct form of a verb for a sentence. For an instance,how often have you heard "I sung the song" instead of "I sang the song"?   But, we first have to know what a verb is.

1. What is a verb?

A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of thepredicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen

2. What is a Tense 

The time of a verb's action or state of being, such as present or past.

Many contemporary linguists equate tenses with the inflectional categories (or different endings) of a verb. 

3. The Six Tenses of Verbs

  Truly, learning the verb tense is one of the major requirements for us to learn more about the language to give us a clearer view of the rules on using these verb tenses 
 

4. Using the correct forms of the verb "Be".

5. You may encounter some irregular verbs. To help you discover more ofthe irregular verbs here are some lists of irregular verbs that you canbe familiar with.

 List of irregular verbs

 

6. Construc short paragraph in not less than 3 sentences using the correct verbtenses that is expressing the future action.

 

Dreams are just like flowers,we can't imagine our life without and as such we have to take care of just as we do with flowers to grow up as we want. Every one in this life has his own dreams and lam that one who has alot of dreams and l would like all my dreams to come true one day. One of my dreams is to take a trip around the world, so that l would be able to get knowledge and insight about that an unknown world for me. I know that is impossible to happen but l belive in God's power that can be able to turn the impossible to sth possible. For that l keep on praying him to make it true.

 
Evaluation

First exercice, second exercise and third exercise :  Who can answer all the questions correctly you will get A+If you can answer more 8 questions, so you will ger B+And if you answer more 5 question correctly you will get BAnd if you just can answer less 5 questions, you will get CThe essay will help you to understanding the lesson and practice your skill in english.the evaluation for this essay depend from using Verbs in sentence. if you can use the verbs exactly and correctly you can get high score.

 

 

Conclusion

There are three main categories of time: Present, Past and Future. The Tenses of Verbs allows us to express time within these categories in a variety of ways. These actions could be done during the conversation, before or after another action and even continously doing the action. This enables us to understand when the action had happend in this time-bound world.

     Without these tenses of the verbs, we would never understand each other like the way we do today. The time of an action is relevant for it has been part of our daily living. In simple conversations we use these different verbs thus it is a must that we too should be aware of the diffrent tenses of the verb for better communication and understanding.