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By Kenneth Beare, About.com Guide to ESL since 1997

Tense Review Charts

Thursday July 2, 2009
This overview chart shows the positive, negative and interrogative (question) forms of all the principal tenses in English with a brief description of the principal usage. The timeline tenses chart provides a handy visual reference sheet to English tenses and their relationship to the past, present and future. Included you will find active, passive, simple and continuous forms positioned according to their occurrence in time. Once your feel comfortable with your tenses, try these tense review quizzes: Past Forms Future Forms Past or Perfect?

Comments

July 26, 2007 at 4:57 pm
(1) Libby Cruz Báypoli says:

This is an excellent and useful material for EFL teachers, thanks for providing it.

November 11, 2008 at 5:51 am
(2) Vandana says:

Excellent site for ESL
Thankyou very much
And God Bless you ‘Dear Kenneth Beare’

With regards,
Vandana Grover

November 11, 2008 at 11:57 am
(3) charmaine Dorma says:

thanks for your help.

November 11, 2008 at 10:08 pm
(4) Bambang Kushariadi says:

very good site for english

November 12, 2008 at 7:50 am
(5) Ibrahim says:

Wonderful lessons keeps wonderful persons

November 16, 2008 at 1:11 am
(6) Estela Dominguez says:

I do not know what mean URL SO I could not fill it up I do not have word enormous to express my gratitud for you work for you help and for you teach.
Estela Dominguez

November 18, 2008 at 8:56 am
(7) virgil says:

this site is excellent. I’m using it a lot. Thanks for tip and exercises.
Congratulations.

November 18, 2008 at 4:30 pm
(8) Ingrid Fabianova says:

Hi Ken,

I appreciate very much your excellent job. Every day I go deep inside ESL. But using “of” and “off” is still very confuse for me. I do not understand how to use it….It kills me :-)
Could you be so kind and tell me some hints, please?
Many thanks, Ingrid

November 19, 2008 at 6:35 am
(9) Khila Achhami says:

very nice site for all the esl learners and teachers. I’ve taken good returns from this programme.

November 22, 2008 at 11:31 pm
(10) jennie says:

this is a great help! thanks a lot!

November 28, 2008 at 6:35 pm
(11) esl says:

Hello,

The basic is answer is that ‘of’ means from something else, or belonging to something else:

The name of this course. The students of the school.

‘off’ generally refers to something coming apart from something else.

I took the book off the desk. Please take that meeting off the calendar.

I hope this helps.

May 18, 2009 at 8:28 am
(12) Taha Hosni says:

no more much thinking about preparing a lesson . no more much reference on your desk .

thanks to all whom it is a result of his kind and sincere efforts

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