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Time to study language

You have learnt about the simple and the continuous tenses. Let’s revise them.

• Simple Present Tense: It expresses general truths, habits, repeated actions, and
scheduled events. For example,

♦ The cat plays with the mouse every day. (habit)

♦ Cats always hunt mice. (general truth)

• Simple Past Tense: It talks about completed actions in the past. For example,

♦ The cat ate up the fat. (completed action in the past)

• Simple Future Tense: It expresses actions or events that will happen in the future.
For example,

♦ We will eat the fat in winter. (future action)

• Present Continuous Tense: It describes ongoing actions happening in the present.
For example,

♦ The mouse is cleaning the house. (ongoing action in the present)

• Past Continuous Tense: It talks about ongoing actions that were happening in the past.
For example,

♦ The cat was attending the ceremony in the morning. (ongoing action in the past)

• Future Continuous Tense: It indicates ongoing actions that will happen at a specific
time in the future. For example,

♦ We will be working on the project tomorrow. (ongoing action in the future)

A. Choose the correct option.
1. One plus one to two.

equals equal less than more than

2. Mehek her assignment tomorrow.

finish finishes will finish is finishing

3. Ratna badminton when it started raining.

was playing plays played is playing

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