A REVIEW OF THE ENGLISH TENSE SYSTEM Introduction This book is a review of the relationships between times and tenses in English. It is intended for beginning and intermediate level language students in non-English speaking countries, as a reinforcement and addition to their regular structure classes. The chapter dealing with each tense may be used as soon as the students have covered that tense in their formal grammar study. Alternatively, the teacher may want to present certain groups of tenses together if the student seems to be having trouble with a particular concept; for instance, he could teach all the perfect tenses or all the continuous tenses together. The English tense system is quite complicated, but the most common problem is not how to form tenses. The mechanical manipulation of verbs is easily learned through a few rules and formulas. The biggest problem is deciding which tense to use in a given situation. In order to choose correctly and easily,...