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Grade 7 English: Tenses review poster

A one-page CAPS Grade 7 English poster on tenses review (Grammar), with the key ideas, key words and a tip to remember.

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English · Grade 7 · Grammar
Tenses review

1Simple tenses

Present: facts and habits (add s after he, she, it). Past: finished actions. Future: will + the verb.

Example

Gogo walks to the shop.
Gogo walked to the shop.
Gogo will walk to the shop.

2Continuous tenses

Use am, is, are, was, were or will be with the -ing form for an action in progress.

Example

The learners are singing.
The learners were singing.
The learners will be singing.

3Perfect tenses

Use have, has, had or will have with the past participle. Present perfect links the past to now. Past perfect shows the earlier of two past actions.

Example

The bell has rung.
The bell had rung before we arrived.
By Friday, we will have finished.

4Irregular verbs

These verbs do not add ed. Learn the three forms.

  • break, broke, broken; go, went, gone
  • write, wrote, written; see, saw, seen
  • choose, chose, chosen; swim, swam, swum
  • bring, brought, brought; begin, began, begun

5Clue words

  • Past: yesterday, last week, ago
  • Present: every day, now, usually
  • Future: tomorrow, next week, soon
  • Present perfect: already, just, ever, never, since, for
  • Past perfect: before, by the time
Example

Not: Last week we have visited Gogo.
But: Last week we visited Gogo.

6Spelling the endings

  • Silent e: drop it (bake, baking, baked)
  • Short vowel + one consonant: double it (stop, stopping, stopped)
  • Consonant + y: change y to i (carry, carried)

Key words

tense
the form of a verb that shows time
auxiliary verb
a helping verb: be, have, will
past participle
the verb form used with have, has, had and be
irregular verb
a verb that does not add ed in the past
continuous
an action in progress (be + ing)
perfect
have, has or had + past participle
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