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TENSES

Future Tenses:
Temel cümlede “Future Tenses” (will, be going to) kullanılırsa, yan cümlede de “Present Tenses” (Simple
Present Tense, Present Continuous Tense, Present Perfect Tense) kullanılmalıdır.
▪ I don’t think they will let you in their building before you get a right to access the property.
▪ After I have had my car serviced, we will set off.
▪ When you gain enough strength and stamina, you will be included in starting line-up.
▪ When all the security controls have finished, they will let you in.
▪ Who will take over your shift while you are at the conference?
▪ While I am taking care of my mom at the hospital, one of my friends will be looking after my cat.
▪ The bus will be at the last stop by the time his mother wakes David up.
▪ By the time the trial period ends, I will have been using this programme for a month.
▪ Nobody can be sure how long we will have been on strike by the time we have persuaded the boss to fulfil our
demands.
▪ Your membership will be automatically renewed every month until you notify us to cancel it.
▪ They won’t unveil the statue until its renovation has been completely finished.
▪ Once you define the problem accurately, it will be easier to identify possible solutions.
▪ As soon as I have given the injection, you will feel some relief.

Key Points

“The Past Continuous Tense” kesintiye uğramış eylemleri anlatırken “The Past Perfect Continuous
Tense” geçmişte gerçekleşmiş bir olay ya da eylemden önceki süreci anlatmak için kullanılır.

▪ The board of public works was working on the budget proposal for the council when the city council started
the annual meeting.
▪ The board of public works had been working on the budget proposal for the council for five hours when the
city council started the annual meeting.
“Superlatives” (the smartest, the most clever, etc.) ve “ordinal numbers” (the third, the last, etc.)
yapılarından sonra “The Present Perfect Tense” veya “The Past Perfect Tense” kullanılabilir.
▪ Britain might be the largest economy Europe has ever seen, but it is not definitely the most powerful military
force.

“For” edatı “The Present Perfect Tense” dışında “The Simple Past Tense” ve “The Simple Future Tense”
ile de kullanılabilir.
▪ I lived in the US for 5 years. It was a great experience for me.
▪ I am planning to stay in England at least for 6 months to improve my English.

Ana cümlede ve yan cümledeki eylemler eş zamanlı gerçekleşiyorsa, “when” yerine “while” tercih
edilir.
▪ While the robbers were taking all the money, people were only watching them.

“Until”, bir eylemin ikinci eylemin gerçekleştiği zamana kadar devam ettiğini ve o anda sona erdiğini
ifade eder. “By the time” ise, ikinci eylem gerçekleştiğinde diğer eylemin zaten tamamlanmış olduğunu
belirtmek için kullanılır.
▪ By the time Mark admitted his alcohol problem, his wife had abandoned him.
▪ Until Oliver made a radical decision and established his own marketing company, he had been working with
his father for some time.

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