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Past Perfect Future Perfect
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Present Perfect
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We have played. We had played. We will have played.
John has played. John had played. John will have played.

Examples:
I jump; she jumps. John jumped. She is jumping. She has jumped before. She will jump tomorrow.

What do you add to a regular verb to make it past tense?___________
What do you add to a regular verb to make it a present progressive? _________
What verb form do you use to create all perfect tenses?____________

Practice 3G: Verb Tense. Write the correct tense of the verb laugh in each sentence below.
1. When I hear something funny, I

2. Yesterday, I at a funny story.
3. I at the funny story right now.
4. She at the joke for nearly an hour.

Practice 3H: For the following verbs, write sentences using the past tense, present progressive tense, and the
future tense: cook, hike, talk, cry.
cook – past

cook – present progressive

cook - future

hike – past

hike – present progressive

hike - future

talk – past

talk – present progressive

talk - future

5 Present Perfect: An aspect of the verb expressing an action that began in the past and that has recently been completed or continues
into the present. The present perfect is formed by combining has or have with a past participle (usually a verb ending in -d, -ed, or -n).

6 Past Perfect: An aspect of the verb that designates an action which has been completed before another past action. Formed with the
auxiliary (helping) had and the past participle of a verb, the past perfect indicates a time further back in the past than the present perfect
or the simple past tense.

7 Future Perfect: A verb form that expresses action completed by a specified time in the future. The future perfect is formed by
combining will have or shall have with a past participle.
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