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Tenses

• Present Simple Tense • Past Perfect Tense
• Present Continuous Tense • Past Perfect Continuous Tense

• Present Perfect Tense • Future Simple Tense
• Present Perfect Continuous Tense • Future Continuous Tense
• Past Simple Tense • Future Perfect Tense

• Past Continuous Tense • Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Bu ünitede aşağıdaki konuları öğreneceksiniz:

• Present Simple Tense
- The light from the Sun reaches to the Earth in 8 minutes and 20 seconds.

• Present Continuous Tense
- Currently, people are using online trade websites to do shopping.
• Present Perfect Tense

- Scientists have found a new way to estimate the intelligence of our ancestors recently.
• Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- The world has been going through a digital change at an incredible speed for more than 30 years.

• Past Simple Tense
- Ancient mariners used the stars for navigation, but this method didn’t work during the day or on cloudy
nights.
• Past Continuous Tense
- In the era of geographical discoveries, most great empires were organising sea voyages to find new trade routes.
• Past Perfect Tense

- Turkish women had already gained the right to vote when women in France were granted with it in 1944.
• Past Perfect Continuous Tense
- The generals had been discussing an attack plan for a few days when the opposite side surrendered.

• Future Simple Tense (will and be going to)
- Employers think they will attract the best applicants when they run job advertisements in detail.
- The manager is going to fire the waiter because he had a quarrel with one of the customers.

• Future Continuous Tense
- In tomorrow’s meeting, the city council will be considering a number of new rules about animal rights.
• Future Perfect Tense

- People will have gained the habit of riding their bikes for transportation by 2050.
• Future Perfect Continuous Tense
- The interior designers will have been making plans for weeks by the time they start the project.

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