How many verb tenses are there in English? - Anna Ananichuk

Confusing

Все равно не понятно. Особенно двухэтажный Perfect Continuous

Thanks for Dan at BBC Learning English, his masterclass video for adults telling don't be tense for tenses. This video is simplifying it for Kids.

English has 2 tenses, it doesn’t have future tense but it has future time

10/10 Video, 200% Learning speed compared to my class subject.

Don’t think a picture of a murderous dictator and accused international criminal Putin is a proper representation of a language, especially in one row with other neutral images of nation’s stereotypical images. Even for a video made 5 years ago.
Not that I’m defying russian, as there’s also plenty of worthy slavic languages to analyze and mention at the same place.

"English has only two morphological tenses: the present (or non-past), as in he goes, and the past (or preterite), as in he went. The non-past usually references the present, but sometimes references the future (as in the bus leaves tomorrow)." Grammatical Tense - Wikipedia

On my CELTA course they said that there are just two tense, present and past. While it's useful to teach 12 tenses there are strictly speaking two tenses + aspects and future marker language is used to talk about the future.

Vietnamese sometimes even doesn’t use tense, just understand it by yourself 😚

I love this summary, it really makes one understand the way time is reflected in English verb forms. I would love to share it with my EFL pupils, but the high speed and rather sophisticated vocabulary is too difficult even for my 16year olds. Anyway, thanks for making me understand it all!

There are actually only two morphological tenses in English: "I went" and "I go".

"They have built a special submarine. "
English: present perfect
Hungarian: past
The Hungarian, who learns English: fr1ck this sha1t :D Especially the future and past perfect.

There are three types: Past , Present, Future
and each has further 4 types
Simple, Continuous, Perfect, Perfect Continuous
That makes a total of 12 tenses.
Make things simple, why present them in a complicated and unclear way?

I hammer.

Teaching style should bee simple

But i still don't get perfect tenses.

Finally something I've already learnt in school.

So, what would be the right tense for the future of a past that was affected by something from the future?

mind-boggling 🤯

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Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

I need to improve my spoken English but i am afraid natives gonna laugh at my mistakes, can somebody who speaks English fluently tell me how did he conquer that fear

This was so consice and a lot of fun. I love learning grammar.

had been sailing is which tense? past progressive?

The joke at the beginning is wrong. Future is a time, not a tense. There are 3 times:present,past and future but only two tenses:present and past

"future perfect progressive" sounds like the right kind of music for a Saturday night...

lord help me this is my 14th 'last TED talk vid for the night'

Mama your video is too fast.

That part which mentions that there are auxiliary words also applies to all of those words like "have, will, was, are, have been, will be," and so on. So while English does essentially have those concepts, that's not actually grammatical tense (Also, most of those are aspect rather than tense, since it's referring to how the actions occurred in relation to time). Grammatical tense and aspect mean that the language has a different form of a verb to refer to that tense or aspect, like how French has "Je saute" - "I'm jumping," "Je sautais" - "I was jumping," and "Je sauterais" - "I will jump." Each is a different form of the same verb, but each means all of that tense and aspect information in just one word, and there are. French has, essentially, 20 different forms of each verb based on combinations of tense, aspect, and mood (a third category of verb modification which shows the speaker's attitude about the action). English, by contrast hasn't got nearly as many. It has three, four in the case of some irregulars. One for present: "jump," one for present participle: "jumping," one for past: "jumped." And the case for most irregulars: One for present: "see," one for present participle: "seeing," one for past: "saw," and one for past participle: "seen." There isn't even a future. You express future by putting the word "will" in front of your verb. The concepts are there, of course, just not baked into the grammar.

Why is the animation so amazing she's just talking about words?

Great work

how to make grammar difficult? combine tense, aspect, and time instead of just letting each be their own thing...

Mandarin: what's a verb tense lol
Spanish: what ISN'T a verb tense lol

Isse accha meri school ki teacher ne sikhaya tha.

I learned more from this brief video than from four years of high school English classes. We are taught the politics of writing rather than the structure on which it is built.

It's very funny how after such a long time studying English, there are still some things that aren't completely clear about grammar and verb tenses to me. I guess must keep practicing:'v

When you thought the ‘friend was simply and elementary school student fantasising
But he was actually a full grown pirate who had built a submarine to track a monster down.

Doesn't English have an emphatic tense as well? "I shall dance at your wedding" is simple future, but "I WILL dance at your wedding" is future emphatic. I do suppose it depends on how narrowly you define "tense" and "mood", but parsing English sentences is much easier if you include the emphatic in your list of tenses. So, "I do dance at weddings" is present emphatic, "I did dance at wedding is past emphatic' AND "I will dance at weddings" is future emphatic. continuing, therefore, "you shall be dancing at my wedding" is different from "you will be dancing at my wedding". Sometimes the former is called the "future of promise". The third person then says "he/she/it shall dance at my wedding, <despite having a broken leg now>" as opposed to "he/she/it will dance at my wedding <because he/she/it always dances at weddings>." It's a lovely little tense that SHALL be missed as the subtleties of English are ignored or discarded in the name of political correctness, expediency, or ignorance . People SHALL be missing many important nuances in our better literature if they have no or limited knowledge of this tense.

Furthermore, Verbs in English only have 4 forms: simple, 3rd person, gerund and past (participle hardly counts as not all verbs have this form and it is never used in its own) The tangle of tenses described in the video is formed with only these forms and mixing with various auxiliaries.

Wtf? Es lo único que se decir

...going to?...

There are 12 possibilities in English,
1) Past
2) Present
3) Future
4) Past - Perfect
5) Present - Perfect
6) Future - Perfect
7) Past - Continuous
8) Present - Continuous
9) Future - Continuous
10) Past - Perfect Continuous
11) Present - Perfect Continuous
12) Future - Continuous

We can argue that there is no such thing as the future tense in English because there is no inflection. There are ways to express the future, but that doesn't mean that it is a tense.

-I agree with this since my past wasn't simple and my future will never be perfect -

- An English language teacher