Verb Tenses

Question 1

What is verb aspect?

Answer 1

Tenses for tenses (tenses but moreso). There are 4 baby tenses in the Past tense, present tense, and future tense. Helps you situate, more exactly, your verbs in time

Question 2

What is the simple verb aspect?

Answer 2

A general statement.
Can be past present and future.
The past and present have no helping verb. Future tense has will as a helping verb.

Question 3

What is the simple present aspect?

Answer 3

A general statement. It is in base form and has no helping verb

For example: I like sushi

Question 4

What is the simple past aspect?

Answer 4

General statement about something that happened. No helping verb

For example: I loved that cake

Question 5

What is the simple future aspect

Answer 5

General statement about something that will happen.

For example: I will make soup

Question 6

What is the progressive verb aspect?

Answer 6

For an ongoing action in the past, present, or future.

Question 7

What is the present progressive aspect?

Answer 7

For an ongoing action and is

Form: with the present tense of be plus the -ing verb

For example: I am eating cake.

Question 8

What is the past progressive aspect?

Answer 8

For an ongoing action, usually something that was interrupted when something else happened.

Form: past tense of be+ verb ing

For example: We were watching Naruto when the lightning struck our house.

Question 9

What is the future progressive aspect?

Answer 9

For something ongoing in the future.

Form: will + be + verb ing

For example: I will be working all weekend.

Question 10

What is the perfect verb aspect?

Answer 10

Something completed. Can be used with past, present, and future tense.

Question 11

What is the present perfect aspect?

Answer 11

Completed in the past, but relevant to the present.

Form: present tense of have + the participle form of the verb

For example: Now that you’ve finished, let’s go!

Question 12

What is the past perfect aspect?

Answer 12

Completed before something else in the past

Form : had + ed/ past participle form of the verb

For example: Luckily, I had done the dishes before my mom got home.

Question 13

What is the future perfect aspect?

Answer 13

Something that will be completed in the future.

Form: will have + ed/ past participle form of the verb

I will have finished the cookies by then.

Question 14

What is the present perfect progressive?

Answer 14

Ongoing actions that started in the past that are still going on now.

Form: present tense have + been + verbing

For example: I have been reading the book.

Question 15

What is the past perfect progressive aspect?

Answer 15

For an action ongoing in the past, before it stopped when something else in the past happened.

Form: had been + verb ing

For example: They had been working on the project until it got canceled.

Question 16

What is the future perfect progressive?

Answer 16

Ongoing action in the future that ties to another future action.

Form: will have been + verb ing

For example: We will have been waiting for centuries before he finishes.