Perfect Tense: Showing Time Relationships in Writing

This video tutorial covers the use of perfect tenses in English grammar, including past, present, and future perfect tenses. It explains how these tenses are used to indicate the timing of actions in relation to each other. The tutorial provides examples and timelines to illustrate the concepts and offers guidance on forming perfect tenses using 'have' and past participles. It also includes exercises for recognizing and applying perfect tenses in writing, helping learners understand the importance of these tenses in making writing more specific and clear.

What is the primary purpose of using perfect tenses in writing?

• To use more verbs in a sentence

• To make writing more complex

• To simplify sentence structure

• To specify when an action occurs in relation to another

Which of the following sentences correctly uses the present perfect tense?

• He had eaten before he left.

• She will have completed her homework by tomorrow.

• I will finish my project next week.

• They have lived here for five years.

In which scenario would you use the future perfect tense?

• To describe an action that is currently happening

• To describe an action that happened yesterday

• To describe an action that will be completed before another future action

• To describe an action that happened last year

Identify the correct form of the verb in the past perfect tense: 'By the time we arrived, the movie ____ already started.'

• will have

• had

• have

• has

Which sentence needs to be revised to use the present perfect tense?

• I have been to Paris.

• She will have finished her work by noon.

• He has completed the assignment.

• They lived in New York for a year.

What is the past participle form of the verb 'see'?

• saw

• seen

• seeing

• sees

Which of the following verbs is irregular in its past participle form?

• played

• gone

• saved

• walked