What is past present and future tense?

Answer 1

The different tenses are used to tell general times: whether something happens in the past, present, or future. (Of course.)

The easiest way to show this is with examples. If you want to talk about a car driving down the street, you would use different tenses depending on the time you talk about it.

If it already happened, you would use past tense.

Ex: The car drove down the street.

If it is happening, you would use present tense.

EX: The car drives down the street.

If it is going to happen, you use future tense.

Ex: The car will drive down the street.

Pretty simple, right? Not always, depending on who you are. The most common mistake here is that people tend to mix the tenses.

Ex: Billy makes the project. He created it quickly.

Once again, this may sound right or wrong depending on who you are. But the reality is, it isn't "proper" english. The word makes is in present tense, while created is in past tense. There are two ways you can fix this.

Ex: Billy makes the project. He creates it quickly.

Ex: Billy made the project. He created it quickly.

Notice that the bolded words in each sentence are of the same tense.

I hope this helps!