Explain About Tenses, Singular & Prulal And Pronoun

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About Tenses

Simple Past Tense, Simple Present Tense, Simple Future Tense

Simple Past Tense

• Simple Pas Tense is simple of the verb to indicate an event that happened in the past.

Formula :
( + ) S + Verb 2 + O
( - )  S + did not verb 1 + O
( ? )  Did + S + verb 1 + O

Example :

a. The man bought some book

b. The mechanic repaired the car

Simple Present Tense

• Simple Present Tense indicates that an action is present, now, relative to the speaker or writer. Generally, it is used to describe actions that are factual or habitual. Thing that occur in the present but that are not necessarily happening right now.

Fromula :
( + ) S +/- auxiliary(do/does) + bare infinitive
( - ) S + aux. verb(do/does) + not + bare infinitive
( ? ) Do/Does + S + bare infinitive
 

Example :

a. John drives a taxi

b. She buys the pen

Simple future Tense

• Simple future tense is a verb used to express that an action occurred spontaneously in the future or planned.

Formula :
( + ) S + will + bare infinitive
( - )  S + will + not + bare infinitive
( ? ) Will + S + bare infinitive

Example :

a. They will play football next week

b. We shall study Mathematics tomorrow

About Singular and Plural

Singular

• Singular noun is describing only one person or to show an object

Example :

a. He is a student in the Phoenix University

b. My class is beautiful

Plural

• Plural is a formed by adding -s behind the letters to be made noun

Example : 

a. My rooms are rented for three months

b. The Dean meets her students in front of the office

About Pronoun

Personal Pronoun

Personal pronouns are used to represent people. They can show first person (the speaker), second person (the person being spoken to), or third person (the person being spoken about).

Example : 

1. You went to the party on Saturday night.

2. He called the store, but everyone was on a lunch break.

Possessive Pronoun
Possessive nouns are nouns that show ownership or possession.  Normally these words would be a singular or plural noun, but in the possessive form they are used as adjectives to modify another a noun or pronoun.  Possessive pronouns show that something belongs to someone or something.

Example : 

1. The bicycle over there is his, but this one right here is mine.

2. The litle boy who lives next door played with his toys. 

Reflexive Pronoun

A reflexive pronoun is used when the subject and object of the sentence are the same. The reflexive pronouns are: myself, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, themselves.

Example :

1.The man talked to himself as he walked down the street.

2. The little girl learned how to dress herself for school.

Reference :

• http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/pasted.htm
• http://www.k12reader.com/subject/pronouns/