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:
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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
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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.
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Hello,
I have used this site for some time now.I have found it very useful and it contains information which sets good standards.It helped me with my understanding of right vocabulary at right situation.I am not a native English speaker,so About.com helped me learn things which is did not know.Every time i go through different articles i find a new thing which i have never known.I deal with native speaker everyday and I am grateful to Kenneth for his contributions.I don’t feel alienated now!
Anyway i would like to ask Kenneth about a doubt in my mind.I have heard people say- “thanks for your kindness” to which people reply “My pleasure” .I used say the same as a reply but recently i got some strange expression from native English speakers for this reply of mine.Is this not the correct phrase to use? ‘ Its all my pleasure’ to a “thanks”
Suchetan
India
There are a couple of phrases that are also used instead of ‘My pleasure’. “The pleasure is all mine” or “it’s a pleasure” come to mind. There are also phrases like “not at all”, or “no problem” that serve the same function.
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