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Understanding Active Voice Tenses

The document discusses the active voice and describes the simple present, past, and future tenses in English. It explains that the active voice uses a subject that expresses the main verb's agent, while passive voice uses a subject that receives an action. It then provides examples of how to form and use each simple tense, including when they are used to express habits, repeated actions, future plans or predictions, and more.

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Understanding Active Voice Tenses

The document discusses the active voice and describes the simple present, past, and future tenses in English. It explains that the active voice uses a subject that expresses the main verb's agent, while passive voice uses a subject that receives an action. It then provides examples of how to form and use each simple tense, including when they are used to express habits, repeated actions, future plans or predictions, and more.

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ACTIVE VOICE

 Active voice is used in a clause whose subject expresses the main verb's agent.
 Passive voice is a type of sentence which a subject receives an action.
Active voice will be described and explained in simple tenses.
1. Simple present tense
2. Simple past tense
3. Simple future tense

Tense is the form of a verb that takes to show the time it happened.

There are three main tenses:


1. The present tense is used to describe things that are happening right now, or things that
are continuous.
2. The past is used to describe things that have already happened (e.g., earlier in the day,
yesterday, last week, three years ago).
3. The simple future refers to a time later than now, and expresses facts or certainty.
EXPRESSING PRESENT TIME

 It is one of several forms of present tense in English.

 It is used to describe habits, unchanging situations, general truths, and fixed

arrangements.

 The simple present tense is simple to form. Just use the base form of the verb: (I
take, you take, we take, they take) The 3rd person singular takes an -s at the end. (he
takes, she takes)

The simple present tense is used:


 To express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and
wishes:I smoke (habit); I work in London (unchanging situation); London is a large
city (general truth)
 To give instructions or directions.
 To express fixed arrangements, present or future: Your exams start at 09.00
 To express future time, after some conjunctions: after, when, before, as soon as, until.

 For habits, for example:


[Link] drinks tea at breakfast.
[Link] only eats fish.
[Link] watch television regularly.
 For repeated actions or events, for example:
[Link] catch the bus every morning.
2. It rains every afternoon in the hot season.
3. They drive to Monaco every summer.

EXPRESSING PAST TIME


The affirmative of the simple past tense is simple. For the negative and interrogative form of all verbs
in the simple past, always use theauxiliary 'did''.

Example:

 I was in Japan last year


 We didn't have any money.
 Did you do much climbing in Switzerland?

EXPRESSING FUTURE TIME


The simple future is used:

 To predict a future event:


It will rain tomorrow.
 With I or We, to express a spontaneous decision:
I'll pay for the tickets by credit card.
 To express willingness:
I'll do the washing-up.
He'll carry your bag for you.
 In the negative form, to express unwillingness:
The baby won't eat his soup.
 With I in the interrogative form using "shall", to make an offer:
Shall I open the window?
 With we in the interrogative form using "shall", to make a suggestion:
Shall we go to the cinema tonight?
 With I in the interrogative form using "shall", to ask for advice or instructions:
What shall I tell the boss about this money?
 With you, to give orders:
You will do exactly as I say.
 With you in the interrogative form, to give an invitation:
Will you come to the dance with me?

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