TENSES
Present
Simple
Form
I,
we, You, They
|
V1
|
He,
She, It
|
Vs,es
|
Use
1. အျမဲမွန္ကန္တဲ့
ျဖစ္ရပ္
2. အေလ့အထ
Adverbs of
frequency
always,
usually, often, frequently, sometimes, occasionally, rarely, seldom, hardly
ever, never
3. ေဖာ္ျပခ်က္
(statement)၊ အခ်က္အလက္ (fact)၊ ပုံမွန္ျဖစ္ေနလုပ္ေနက်ကိစၥ(routine)
၊ အခ်ိန္ဇယား (time-table)
Examples
1.
Mother
always gets up at five.
2.
He
usually goes to school on foot.
3.
It
takes the earth one day to rotate one time.
4.
There
are three seasons in our country.
5.
The
train leaves at 6:30.
Present
Continuous
Form
I
|
am
|
V-ing
|
We, You, They
|
are
|
|
He, She, It
|
is
|
Use
1. အခုေျပာေနခ်ိန္မွာ
ျဖစ္ေနတာကို ေျပာခ်င္ရင္
2. နီးကပ္တဲ့
အနာဂတ္မွာ ျဖစ္မွာကို ေျပာခ်င္ရင္ (စီစဥ္ျပီး၊ ဆုံးျဖတ္ျပီးသားကိစၥ)
Examples
1.
Don’t
disturb me. I am working.
2.
Hurry
up. We all are waiting for you.
3.
We
are reading this book now.
4.
I’m
going to Mandalay tomorrow morning.
5.
We
are playing tennis this afternoon.
Present
Perfect
Form
I, We, You, They
|
have
|
V3
|
He, She, It
|
has
|
Use
1. လုပ္ျပီးတာ
2. လုပ္ဖူးတာ
(ဘယ္အခ်ိန္ဆိုတာ မပါ။
ပါရင္ past)
ဒါေတြနဲ႔
တြဲသုံးႏိုင္တယ္ >> just, already,
yet
3. အတိတ္ကစျပီး
ခုခ်ိန္ထိျဖစ္တာ
for + ၾကာခ်ိန္
since + စတင္ခ်ိန္
Examples
1.
I
have just written an
essay.
2.
She
has already cooked the
dinner.
3.
He
has not repaired the windows yet.
4.
I
have been to Mandalay.
5.
I
have lived in Maubin since I
was born.
6.
They
have been in Bago for two
weeks.
Present
Perfect Continuous
Form
I, We, You, They
|
have been + V-ing
|
He, She, It
|
has been + V-ing
|
Use
အတိတ္ကစျပီး ခုခ်ိန္ထိျဖစ္ေနတာကို ေျပာရင္
(know, understand,
realize, like, dislike, hate, love, want, wish စတဲ့ verb ေတြကို -ing ပုံစံမသုံး)
Examples
1.
I
have been living here since my childhood.
2.
She
has been doing the housework since the morning.
Past
Simple
Form
I, We, You, They
He, She, It
|
V2
|
Use
အတိတ္မွာ ျပီးျပတ္တဲ့ ျဖစ္ရပ္ကို ေျပာခ်င္ရင္
yesterday,
last week, ago, in 1985, this morning
Examples
1.
He
came here yesterday.
2.
Father
bought a new car last week.
3.
My
brother was born in 1996.
4.
I
met your mother at the market this
morning.
Past
Continuous
Form
We, You, They
|
were
|
V-ing
|
I, He, She, It
|
was
|
Use
အတိတ္မွာ
လုပ္ေနဆဲ၊ ျဖစ္ေနဆဲကို ေျပာခ်င္ရင္
When
S V2 …. S was, were + V-ing
While
S was, were + V-ing …. S V2
Examples
1.
When
father arrived home, mother was cooking the dinner.
2.
What
were you doing at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon?
3.
I
was having lunch with my friend.
4.
While
the children were playing, it started to rain.
Past
Perfect
Form
I, We, You, They
He, She, It
|
had
+ V3
|
Use
အတိတ္က ျဖစ္ရပ္ႏွစ္ခုအနက္ အရင္ျဖစ္တဲ့
ျဖစ္ရပ္ကိုေျပာခ်င္ရင္
Examples
1.
When
father came home, mother had cooked the dinner.
2.
I
went to him this afternoon. He had already
bought the tickets.
3.
I
had just written down
the answer when the time was up.
4.
No
sooner had she hung the clothes than it began to rain.
Future
Simple
Form
I, We, You, They
He, She, It
|
will
+ V1
|
Use
1. အနာဂတ္မွာ
ျဖစ္မွာကို ေျပာခ်င္ရင္
2. If
ပါတဲ့ ဝါက်မွာ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေခ်ကို ေျပာခ်င္ရင္
Examples
1.
It
will rain this afternoon.
2.
The
guest will arrive this evening.
3.
If
you work hard, you will get a prize.
4.
If
she receives my message, she will call me.
Future
Perfect
Form
I, We, You, They
He, She, It
|
will
have + V3
|
Use
အနာဂတ္မွာ
ျပီးစီးေနမွာကို ေျပာခ်င္ရင္
Examples
1.
This
time next year, I will have written another book.
2.
By
the end of this month, they will have built the bridge.
Practice
Write the correct
tense of the verbs given in brackets. Write down only the answers.
1.
“What
you (look) at?” “This picture. Don’t you like it?”
2.
You
always (interrupt) me!
3.
You
(see) the article about me in the paper this morning.
4.
He
(lie) on the sofa and (fall) asleep.
5.
When
my car (break) down, I (phone) a garage.
6.
“I
(enjoy) my childhood.” “Yes, you (say) that three times already!”
7.
The
troops (enter) the city and they now (protect) the relief of workers.
8.
Years
ago, she (appear) in all the big concert halls of Europe, but recently, she
only (sing) in the USA.
9.
Quick!
There (be) an accident. Phone the hospital. The accident (happen) when that red
car (shoot) out of the side street without warning.
10. Although we (be) in this village
six years so far, we (not get) to know many people yet. But our next neighbours
(be) very helpful when we first (move) in.
11. After the gardener (sweep) up the
leaves, he burnt them.
12. At 8 o’clock last night I (read)
an interesting book when the light (go) out.
13. He (hurt) his ankle while he
(play) football.
14. The star (perform) at the Indoor
Stadium tomorrow.
15. If I don’t (do) well in my exams
this year, my mother won’t (allow) me to visit friends in Europe.
16. Mosquitoes (be) harmful insects.
They (suck) our blood and (spread) diseases.
17. The clock has stopped. They (not
wind) it up since last week.
