http://newton.uor.edu/facultyfolder/rider/verbtenses.htm
A verb indicates the time of an
action, event or condition by changing its form. What SLPs teach a child to
attend to is: (1) when the action occurs, and (2) the form the verb takes to
communicate that temporal notion.
There are many ways of categorizing the
twelve possible verb tenses of English. This web page is going to limit the
information about verb tenses according to the time frame: present tenses, past
tenses, and future tenses. Emphasis will be further limited to: simple present,
present progressive, simple past, past progressive, simple future, and future
progressive. Limited information on the perfect aspect of verb tenses will be
given.
The temporal concepts
children need to know they are communicating with the following verb tenses
are:
SIMPLE
PRESENT - is used
to describe an action that is occurring in the present, at the moment of
speaking. The simple present is used when the precise beginning or ending
of a present action, event, or condition is unknown or is unimportant to the
meaning of the sentence. In short, the child's communication intent is about the
action, and unconcerned about time of action aspects.
SIMPLE
PAST - The simple
past is used to describe an action that occurred in the past, sometime
before the moment of speaking. The regular past tense verb is marked
with the [ed] ending as in (walk - walked). There are seven different ways
to mark the irregular past tense verb. The most common is to change the vowel
as in (sing - sang)
FORM Simple Present
EXAMPLE: [ to run]
I run
you run
he runs
she runs
it
runs
we run
they run
Simple
past
I /you/they ran
He/she/it/ran