Tenses

Tense tells us when an action happens through the use of different forms of verbs.

Examples :

• I eat porridge.
• She played football.
• He will sleep.

Tenses are three - Present, Past and Future.

• Simple present tense expresses present action that we almost do daily as a habit. We use first form of the verb in this tense. In above example - I eat porridge, 'eat' is the first form of the verb that shows, the sentence expresses 'Present time'.
• Simple past tense expresses past action. Second form of the base form is used. In the above sentence ' She played football', ' played' is the second form of the verb 'play'. 'Played' denotes past time.
• Simple future tense expresses future action. 'Will + first form of the verb' together do this job. In the third sentence - He will sleep, 'will sleep' shows that this sentence is used for future action.

Present (first form)	Past (second form)	Future (will + first form)
act	acted	will act
agree	agreed	will agree
allow	allowed	will allow
ask	asked	will ask
arrive	arrived	will arrive
awake	awoke	will awake
become	became	will become
begin	began	will begin
bind	bound	will bind
blow	blew	will blow
breathe	breathed	will breathe
build	built	will build
call	called	will call
carry	carried	will carry
catch	caught	will catch
change	changed	will change
choose	chose	will choose
cost	cost	will cost