◼️ Interaction among Different Tenses
1. I have a bad headache. I have had it for more than an hour. I am going to see my doctor about it.
Sentence I — Simple present tense .
Sentence II — present perfect tense
Sentence III — future tense
2. Mina, a little girl, was crying bitterly. She had lost her doll. She thought she would never find it again.
Sentence I — past continuous tense
Sentence II — past perfect tense
Sentence III Ist clause — past tense
2nd clause — future tense with past auxiliary (would) |
3. Mr. Kamal, an engineer, works for the local corporation. He drives to work. But today he is going by rickshaw because
his car has broken down.
Sentence I — simple present tense
Sentence II — simple present tense
Sentence III 1st clause — present continuous tense
2nd clause — present perfect tense.
4. It was late afternoon. Farmer Lum was walking home from his fields. His feet sank deep in the thick dust. A dry hot wind blew dust across the brown fields. The leaves on the bamboo had curled with heat and dry air. The rainy season was late this year. Everything needed rain. Even the water in the village well was getting low.
In the above paragraph -
Sentence I — past tense
Sentence II — past continuous tense
Sentence III— past tense
Sentence IV — past tense
Sentence V — past perfect tense
Sentence VI — past tense
Sentence VII — past tense
Sentence VIII — past continuous tense
