- Look at the following sentences and notice time change and verb change:
- I wake up at 7o’clock everyday.
- I woke up at 6 o’clock yesterday.
- Tomorrow, I will wake up at 7 o’clock again.
- We go to Delhi every month.
- We went to Delhi last month.
- We will go to Delhi next month.
The first sentence in both the groups expresses habitual activity.
The second sentence in both the groups expresses past activity.
The third sentence in both the groups expresses future activity.
The words wake, woke, go and went are Verbs.
Wake and go denote action which is done in the present time.
Woke and went denote action which was done in the past time.
When we add will/shall to wake and go, we express action which will be done in the future time.
- Verbs are, along with Nouns, the most important words in a sentence. They express actions. When the time of an action changes, the Verb also changes.
- Let us look at some more examples:
| Present (Today) | Past (Yesterday) | Future (Tomorrow) |
| We work | We worked | We shall work |
| You sleep | You slept | You will sleep |
| They run | They ran | They will run |
| I eat | I ate | I will eat |
| We speak | We spoke | We shall speak |
- Some Verbs have the same form in both Present and Past; as,
| We read | We read | We shall read |
| It costs | It cost | It will cost |
| I bet | I bet | I will bet |
| The Sun sets | The Sun set | The Sun will set |