English Grammar – How to learn tenses – ALL tenses!!

good lesson i leant a lot

thilina

Good lesson I learnt a lot.

Erika Reis

learned*

mary

Learnt; is British and learned is American… it’s like the verb Dream, both are correct

karem95

lol learned and learnt are the same thing xd

ayranmaiden

Mr/James Is the best

kotoz

Thank you, you guys are the best.

MamadoumDiallo

your lesson is so good. I like it.

kamal

i am intrested this lesson

abdul rafay

very interested thanks james

tsege

Good job MR. James.

Cosmin

Hi James and everybody! James, thank you for another great lession! None of my teachers have mentioned any trigger word while explaining grammar rules. Next week :), I’ll try to revise all the tenses, following your scheme :).

alice12

I like your teaching method.
All teachers of “EngVid” doing good job.
Love you All umaa……..

majorkashif74

James you are really wonderful teacher.
it would be very useful if you can make video about how the tenses are shifting.
I mean that, to use different tenses in one sentence.

thanks

Hakim

Also using if condition will be fine.
thanks again.

Hakim

Hello James I love the way that you explan the lesson. I shall keep watching all the lesson.
one big embrace.
From Brazil !!!!!!!!!
Eduardo

dudarangel

i have a guestion please iwant learning english write and speak how can you help me

hashim

really

GIFT.CHISHALA

hi, i would like to ask what book were you reading before you start the lesson here in the video? thanks a lot

mariacapco

thanks mrs alex i m hafiz zia from pakistan.your teaching style is very much attractive.

ziakhan12

Who here can help me with this test
5. I like _____ to the theatre.

go
going
to going
coming

6. What time ________ work?

does he start
he start
he starts
does he starts
11. He ______ swim very well.

can’t
can’t to
not can
don’t can

12. Where _________ yesterday?

were you
you were
was you
you was

19. What did you _____ him?

tell
say
tell to
said to
25. If I _____ shopping today, I’ll buy some apple juice for you.

go
went
will go
would go
28. If I ____ a lot of money, I would buy a house in the country.

have
had
would have
would had

29. When I woke up, everybody else _________.

had already left
would left
already left
already had left

30. They asked me if I ______ the dinner party.

was enjoying
would enjoy
would enjoyed
am enjoy
38. The children like doing things ________.

on their own
with themselves
on themselves
at their own

iskander

hi im happy to help you with your questions. Answer (5) I like going. 6 What time does he start work? 11 He can:t swim well,12 Where were you yesterday?.19 What did you tell him?25 If I go shopping.28 If I had a lot of money.29 When I woke up everybody had had already left. 30 They asked me if I was enjoying the dinner party. 38 The children enjoy doing things on theie own. Good luck hope this helps you,

orlando

the first answer just “go” because it’s a present tense.hope done..

jumat

Dear Jumat, the answer for the first (5) question is “going”. After like, you can not use go in that form. It must be going or to go. I hope that I could help.

Roland

thank you teacher for this lesson is very useful .
teacher please, you can tell me wath’s the deifference between (I can’t take it and I can’t stand it )

soufianebr

can’t take it
معناها لا يمكن ان احصل علية
I can’t stand it
لا يمكن الوقوف علية (مع الحشمة)وشكرا

abdel

I think i can help you.so here are the right answers
1)going
2)does he start
3)can’t
4)were you
5)tell
6)go
7)had
8)had already left
9)was enjoying
10)by themselves
For the last one i think it is more appropriate to say by themselves
.Did you really not know how to solve them?

abbas

Can anybody tell me what we call the sound produced when we ease our joints.

abbas

Excellent leson ;cups you tech us a leson in past perrfect with the same method?
By the way WILL YOU MARRY ME?

Pepe

Hi james nice lesson thanks for make english easier for us see us!!

bigboy85

Nice lesson indeed ,please do the same thing with other tenses it will be very hellpful ;)

Ziber

Thank you abbas, where you from?

Iskander

thanks!but I coudn’t undestand because u are teaching very fast and my english is not so good and your voice is not so clear so please teach me in a clear voice

moni

For learning english grammar there are many sources,we can learn through books & can learn through internet also.for making grammar perfect there is a need to be strong in fields like adjective,noun,preposition,adverb,pronoun,verb.

learn English grammar

impressive doing good job keep it up. . .

princess

Hello James,

I would like to know what is the differences between can and may, could and might, into and onto and finally between and among. I will appreciate if you can help me. Thanks a lot.

Cristian

Geminis3505

Tremendous lesson. I like to get rest of all same way

abu

hello james . I’m ayman from Saudi Arabia u r goood in teching keep up .

ayman

James, your lessons are interesing. but you move so quickly and it prevents from concentrating on lesson. I feel giddy………. :\\\\\

juliaiv

thanks james, i like style your teaching, and it is so interesting. I hope engVID can teach us more about english, still a lot to us study in english, and thank you again i say to you.

style boy

James, every your lesson helps me prepare for the TOEFL test. i can understand everything perfectly. thanks a lot! and i am also very grateful to the other teachers! Keep it up! =)

All the best from Belarus =)

natashunia

ok then u must help me ok please help me

hamid khan

Excellent!!!

richy

mercii beaucoup pour la leçon =)

bejjita

Hello James! I’m Florina from Romania. I’m interested in learning English and I started about two years ago, trying to learn alone. I can say it’s very hard to learn alone, so I see myself obliged to ask help. Now, I’m trying to undertand the deferences between present perfect simple and present perfect continuous with for and since. For exemple : ” I’ve been leaving in this town for many years/since I was a child”- and : “I’ve lived here for two years/since 2000”.
It’ true that we use simple present perfect with verbs that show a situation like: live, be, stay,k know ?
I’ll be grateful for your answer,
Florina.

flor1978

Florina nu intaleg intrebarea ta . ,,lived ” nu e prezetnt e trecut .. ce ai vrut sa intrebi?

steliansandor

Your videos are so great, i am learning very quick with them. Can you please do a video on prepositions. I always get confused with those. Such as do i say “In the bus” or “on the bus?” i wish i had you as my english teacher, even if its only for one year.

learningeachday

It’s really good , but still here a little of Complications , i just should listen to the lesson more then one time
thanks

vrozen99

I have a problem this day… the video stoop when you start teaching! I would to learn this lesson.. I will try again.. thanks

abdlhakim

its good and way of the teaching method also excellence.keep it up always.

narendra

Hi, beautiful lesson James. please can you give me a trigger to teach the present perfect and the conditional, very hard stuff for foreign students. thank you, connie.

connie

hi. im beginner to learn english pls if u can learn me to speaking english and thanks iam from egypt.

nabil

you totaly good at teaching

arlette sanon

excusme teacher James could you tell me where are you from? oh thanks good lesson

engstudent

you are so amazing teacher i like to be your student

rRebwar

I don’t get it.

Efrain

I’ve been observing your previous lessons and they are all flipping nuts! This one is particularly awesome, but I’m wondering what words would you use in the trigger and definition parts for a past perfect progressive and future perfect tense. It would be great if you can reply my comment!
James I suggest that you prepare a lesson on CONDITIONALS, please make an overview including mix and exceptions. THNX

Tavo

I love your way of teaching. Would you please make presentations of how to teach other tenses? I’m looking forward to, bye :)

Monika

I understand the tense you trying to teach. what about the comparison between present,past and future tense with the same situation.

aminmacewan2011

very interesting, thank you

doe

Hi james nice lesson thanks for make english easier for us see us!!

bihifree

I know you are the one who’s better than all of the teachers teaching English, that’s why I tried to ask you. how can I download full video in a single click? or buy CDs? within Afghanistan it’s very difficult to find internet cafe and if you did, there is no enough bandwidth to download these clips.
I really appreciate your teaching style and your sister on white board.
please answer me one more thing, why there is police horn passing by on every session of this engvid? Sometimes it is exectly when the lession is near to end.
I wish I could be in your English classes live.
I realy like the style and confident you use to teach.
best regards,
Ahmad Wali

Ahmad

nice work

puneetllatawa

a perfect explanation too from teacher jaaamesss :=)))

dylanna

your lesson is so helpful thanks a lot

fatma dini

this is the website were I’ve learned so much

missha

Thanks a lot.

alo75

Thanks alot James

riadh37

i don’t know how to thank you …. i am speechless

donamino

thank you for help me

khloud

we like all lessons of this website thank you

sahar and uroosa

hey james,
i live in germany and i would like learn the english grammar.i search in the internet and found on youtube this page.very good job you´ve helped me a lot.

Tuba

Thank you very much James :D

jamo

i got it jamessss , gr8 tips n best trigger ,,, :)

maddy08

good way to learn more english.thanks

varinder

wonderful! Thanks a lot!

ROZA

Thanks a lot for your Great teaching method.

Monomoon

marvelous sir

sany

thank you teacher

toty

thank you teacher it is perfect.

jameel17

thank you soo much ,
it is really effective …

angel

no comment best ever

saleh

perfect!)

Arthyr

Very nice method

Yifat

really awesome thank you :D

fatma

I can understand nothing wath do you say. I speak to fast. I am just a learner.

Sordo

It was fantastic!
The exquisite one!!!
Wow!!!!!!!

Ibrahim

I super like your videos!! Keep it up!

cmalazo

Great lesson James. Congrats!
I’m wondering what would be the best triggers for the other verbal tenses? Could you give us a list to help us remember all of them?
Keep up the good work. You rock man!

Marcos

hello thanks for your lesson teacher, i would like to know what is the page web that you said effectively english or something like that thanks

nicaturism

hello ,your lessons are very helpful,I enjoy them all.
by the way, using a trigger for each subject is a great idea,
thank you .

mus007

nice work

Waqas

Good Job teacher!! i learned a lot from you..now I understand my prepositions..hehe

zhamirJhoy

u my favorite. and u did it at 8 min 31 sec- u cool lol

7sammy7

definitely, you must understand english very well to take these lessons… but I admit they are very helpful. And the teachers are excellent. Two thumbs up!!!

Carlos

Thank a lot. Your teaching is very interesting.

wakeelahmedchanna23

Too complicated. Inapplicable for me( Anyway thank you for your job

juliange

hi will u talk wid m in english
my skype
id is babul.ray

babulray

thank you for the lessons, but, would you mind to add an script of what you say? Some parts are really difficult for me to understand.

Chema

thanks a lot mate…

volkan84

I wish I understood what you were saying..

lunashine

Thanks a lot, Gianni.

gianni14

ALIKT HOW YOU TEACHE

fatima

it would be good, when you make for every lesson a small quiz(7-9 question) thanks

torbix

thanks alot

eltiganyjuma22

please I need help , why I can not watch all the lessons ? I mean after few min. the lessons sotp so what I have to do pleassssssssssssssssssssssssssssse

biospider

Your connection might be too slow. If this is the problem, you can press play, then pause the video for a few minutes to let it load completely. Then press play and watch!

engVid

Respected tearchers!
you peoples are doing a wonderful job,i can’t reward you, because i am your student.. i have learnt alot..
bundle of thanks and keep it up

waqar

very good teaching I’learn a lot

jorge s.perez

Hello. Thank you for your lesson/ It’s useful.
Wat about other tenses? Can you tell for us?

Lena

I like your way to explain difficult things simply!
thanks!

jansoti

james can u plz explain each n every tense…..where i can join u …..4 regular learning of tenses

sania

James, I do apologize my comments about your teaching method. I think it better to stick on short and sweet subject matter rather than to explain un necessary explanation. you always talking too much out of subject matter, if you explain to the point it will make quite easy to understand and with in the time frame you c

rabs

James,
My sggestion about your teaching method, always come to the fact, to the ponit no need to explain unnecessarly. you always talking out of subject and your examples doesn’t support to understand to the subject matter.It is better to stick on subject matter rather than to explain un necesarly because your long explanation makes quite puzzel to understand the main fact. so, It will better to go short and sweet to the points.
Thank you.

rabs

James,
your lessons are so helpful for me. Thanks a lot. When I’m listening to you I discover english again. It slowly becomes a passion. Thanks again.

lena92

Amazing!!!!!

afrozengvid

Dear teacher James, I am an english student, and i have a question, could you help me please, because this question will be in my examination in february, -Which is the difference between Time and Tense? Greetings from Albania

rosapha

that was a very good lesson, I learned allot.

jawid1982

Very nice lessons.It is easy to under stand

ngbhat

hi friends,can u help why we have to add when is used 3rd person please response my question

tahmina

thank you so much it is a very interesting website your videos are well done special thanks to teachers

bellet

nice job

majdy lama

thanks a lot

lale22

Thank You

rioboi

improve your english plz

Hassan Qasim

i joint my voice to all these to realy thanks you for these lessons and for the time you and your staff take for teaching us.May God bless you all.

flaubert

james u are quite good trust me bro

salleh19

hello sir.Great job you are doing.
thank you sooo much.
Bye!!!!!Take Care.

stacy

yea is verri goud i yes lern an a lot theink for yur antention

mary

help me much..awesome..thanks

herkamaya

Hi james ur teching method is very nc bt i think u wil giv us somthing lik test.

Vinali

James,

Thank You very much! You really help me and your lessons are SOOO intersting and funny.
Greetings from Croatia!

green85

exellent.I learn alot fron it…:)

alia ahmad

Hello James.To speak the truth I like the way that you explan this lesson.Thank you

jarets

very intresting.

Manan Shahab

very intersting

Manan Shahab

Easy to learn tenses.Thanks so much!

Orkhan

You’re great teacher, and enthusiastic, thanx a lot for the lesson

noskill1343

thanks :)

sayyy3

u re a very gud teacher n i heard the word trigger first time not even one english teacher told me like this

amin

Hi James ,
Are you a Philosophy professor ?

Atef

thanks for this vidio!!! You are a very good teacher.

Mirian Marocchio

thanks …its really useful ….but can you please tell me ….how can i get more videos

Basant yadav

Good job!!! What you think about triggers for other Tenses?

Maria

What about triggers for other tenses?!
PS wonderful approach!

masenka

Hi brothers many thanks for a precious lessons, God pleases you and especial thanks to Prince Alramadi for sharing this site (have a delightful life)

Ismaail Kinin

its not a helpful for me its a big stuff

farheex

Excuse me, where can I find the other tense lessons?

wichasin7

We’ve got quite a lot—browse through them here!

engVid Moderator

I love you engvid. You are good teachers I really like and love because I want to speak English well. Thank you for your lesson.

Kim Seng

nice teaching style

naina

Very smart teacher.I loved the triggers!!!
Thanks a lot!!!

titico

i like your lesson and i have one question for you can you send to me yor lessons by mail because it’s hard for me to learn english by videos thank you

yaniss

hello guys i like this website i realy learnd a lot but i still have so writing problemes i need help

julie

Hello James. My name is Lesya and I am the English instructor at LT English SCHOOL. We practice at school inviting teachers from all over the world to conduct a skype class with the students. I got interested in your way of explaining grammar and I’d like to invite you to join us. Email me if you’re interested. Thamks for the video. It was interesting. Hope to hear from you soon.

Lesya

i need to learn more…

nitiss

heyyy sir…u r excellent…..thanx 4 the lesson..

jully

wow very good like the usual

the clumsy

Excellent. thanks you very much !!

Ahmed Faraz

Great idea – still try to put that way on my subjects

tinasobrino

Thank you very much. I live in Thailand . befor from now I don understand about English language . And now my English it get better.Thanks again.

jamnong

And thank you everybody in engvid.com this website help me very much and I know This website help everybody who want to lean English.

jamnong

very happy to look this website.

umer

thank you very match james ,i’m very happy to listen your lesson,i wich to learn english with you tank you again

hicham

In fact, your manner is good, but I cannot understand much from you ! Could you talk more slowly please ? :(

waleed83

Thank you for your classes.
1 question sir?
Which one is correct?
I skipped rope every morning.
I’ve skipped rope every morning.
I skip rope every mornig.

I’m waiting your answer…….

Tim

Good job. Thanks so much!

lenhat

thanks james, you are a good teacher .I understund all lesson please more.you halp me every day to understoude the lesson thanks teacher.hassiba ,algeres

hassiba

it wass very , i apprechiate it but iwould like you to explain me about like present continous, and all continous tense

harry

I don´t understand but …. thanks….

elkrespo

I play tennis.Today.It’s true.
Cats like milk. Always.It’s true.
Once a week, Tom cleans the car. Repeated.It’s true.

stefan009

mr james when you teach us its like a game with laughing and having fun but from that you really helped us THANK YOU

hessa

hello teacher I really happy!, when I know your program even though my English have limit but know it really good for me through this program my English will improve. thank

philip

Mr. James i wanna ask where is the most correct between kind of hobbies or kinds of hobbies.

Thanks for your response, sir :)

murid165

Your teaching methods helped me to understand more quickly, and listening every word clearly.

marccos

Hi James thanks for lesson ..Could you explain all tenses ?
thanks

moon123

You cannot be an engineer because you have spent a lot of times but you are a very good teacher. Many thanks to you!

stefan009

Thank you very much James!

hricardo

excellent James.I have kearnrd a lot.

Mr Mahmoud Mohsen

thanks james. i have learned many things today

drgotam1

Thanks James I have learned a lot this morning. I know the difference between a farther and further, make and do, ect…

Ruchama19

James, you are very good teacher.

thair

It’s helpful thanks a lot

Hiba1234@

thanx James it very help full for me.

lee.rain@yahoo.com

Thx u very much!

raymonmyataung@gmail.com

Love you James,you are the best and wonderful teacher in the world :*

anulik123

thanx it’s so useful lesson I’ll keep watching u

Princess nosa

Thanks for this good lesson which is useful

Jp74.fr

Hi James,
thanks a lot. Your teaching style is fantastic

take care

cep62

you have the best method for teaching

Thanx james

medotheman2914

Brilliante lesson! Thank you !)

Yeleneel

Thank you for everything.

Iamhere.

So informative lesson

moezbesbes

hello james,
i like the way you teach. I have seen many videos related to tenses(on engvid also) but no one has specified with trigger word i would be very thankful if you help me in this.

nikhil sharma

could you explain all the tenses in that way because i have so problem how i can distinguish past perfect and past perfect continuous and present perfect and present perfect continuous and the difference between these tenses

with all my respect

Zakaria88

outside the box theching awmsome bro

dotcomGlobal

Thanks James … the tenses are the soul of english … your explanation was cool you clarified good method :) we must practice it again and again to get moer strong in language .

aboood1994

Thank you

Noor

Thank you James u such a good teacher

Ncwane

I got diagrams about simple present in my mind…. thanks

sreenathsirimala

thank you so much :))

yagmurkacar

thank you James!!

MacarenaSabin

Thank you so much James for your help! I have been struggling with my english grammar for so many years. and now, I have found a great esl website and an excellent teacher like you!!

Maribelle

Hello Mr. James this video is outstanding.
I appreciated it if would create this triggerword for every single tense!
Please help us! Thanks man

AmigodeengVid

Yes it is a great Idea, I support that.

jadepty

Teacher James,
I like so much how you explain this topic!
Very ingenious.
Thanks you!

Josmer

hello james I Want to ask you some questions about since and for so when we have mixed tenses ok and we have sentence with since and for ok either we use present perfect or present p.progrissive it’s correct to use one them or not ??? and the second question is when we have expression of “by the end of this year or week ” or so on in the sentence either we use future perfect or future.p.p is correct yes or no .that’s all and thank you so much james.

kawtar zanib

Thank you sir!

Jay Lim

Thank you for everything.

arduous

this is good thing.

poa007

good

gosha1998

Hi James.
I really like your lesson.It helps me a lot.
Thanks!

Lm2006

thank you for your lesson James

A-widi

Gooood lesson

eminha

Goodness, I’m franky jercy from Brazil, I’m 23 years old and I’m here to practice my English with you guys.

Frankyjercy

Very helpful lesson, thanks

sooona

Thank you. Very goood! I love u teacher!

Ieda12

ur way of explaining is very good

rumesafatima

Love u james. :*******. thank you for this lesson. If you travel Panama, let me know. XOXO

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alikomail

Thank !!! You veru cool teacher! I wish u much health!

Pelagiya

you r the best teacher in whole wrold the way u teach us we ove learning

mariam786

you are amazing:)

Thanks

otesstour

Hi james,you are really a good teacher.can I contact on fb only for english

Seema yadav

Thanks James. I liked it a lot!Thanks for the hints.

picoliaa

i can’t understand what the video spoke

fitrah gendut

fantastic ! please can you do the same lesson, explaining the present-past-future perfect/continuos it’s so confuse for me. These metod seems me really good thanks a lot!

brc75

You’re the best James !!

abdellah95

wow!! good lesson for me ?

may2y

wala ko kasabot…

RedWaRRioR69

All I can say is WOW, I’m in love. It’s OK my husband loves you too. In the most platonic way. :)

Nyre

Thanks james

Hbmge

Hi James. Great lesson. I am an ESL teacher in the San Francisco bay area. I was wondering, do you have a handout or a list of the ‘trigger’ words for all of the tenses? Or a recommended text that shows this? I like this method your demonstrating and want to use it. I’ll be teaching upper intermediate/advanced grammar this semester. Thanks!! Jane

janeelin123

An interesting grammar lesson but for my opinion a little quick because it’s difficult to assimilate all the tenses in several situations when you are speaking, that is the reason that we prefer to listen more than speaking in the majority of the chances that we learn in our lives, I believe so. Thanks a lot, teacher James Greer from EngVid, a great and funny lesson.

angardiobel

Hi, miss Valen and all my intelligent teachers please tell me about all types of NOUN! please. I am confused because “cow” is a noun. And if name given to that cow suppose “julie” that is also noun or not. Help me with these type of NOUN.

Dharmendra Prasad

GuyZ I Have A Question.. I was in school. i used to learn that we have 3 tenses . present past or future. but now adays recently i Have joined a new language center and they taught me that we have 2 tenses not 3 .. present and past is a tense but future is not a tense.. because tenses talks about surity and confirmed time. and future is not decided. we dont know what will happen in future. and future talks about prediction. and if we talk about will . so its also a model verb. and model verbs talks about chances or possibilty thats why future can not be a tense. john,s wood sydney green and oxford edition 8 or some of more books also have mensioned that .. so guyzz im getting confuse in this. plzz guyz remove my this confusion..
because these are the most famous and acceptable books in english grammer

Usman Minhas

it really helped me in my exams….thx for teaching..

Siddhant Chandra

mr jamas you are the good teachar

badarkhadar

mr james can you tell me grammar

badarkhadar

Thank you James

kheireddine007

thanks i need to learn this before my test tomorrow

jethrohs

Fast and useful! Thanks James!

LUCHOTORRES

I wanna understande all tenses
where I can go

Hamza384

thanks！

shihai182

Dear James, its interesting class but a little advanced, because I don´t understand how to apply to another tense :), can you send us a diagrams to another tenses?. Thanks a lot :)