Active tenses
something.
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[Thing doing action] + [verb] +
· +[thing receiving action]
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Examples
The professor (subject doing action)
teaches (verb)
· the students (object receiving action).
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Mary (subject doing action)
· washes (verb)
· the dishes ( object receiving action).
The tenses of the verb
1.Present (olevik)
2.Past (minevik)
3.Future (tulevik)
4.Future in the past (kaudne tulevik)
Iga aeg võib esineda
neljas eri rühmas
1.IndefiniteTenses (üldajad)
2.Continious Tenses (kestvad ajad)
3.Perfect Tenses (perfekti ajad)
4.Perfect Continious Tenses (perfekti
kestvad ajad)
Indefinite Tenses (üldajad)
used to describe actions but do not state
whether the action is completed or on-
going
märgivad tegevuse sooritamise fakti
Peter visits us every day.
Peter visited us yesterday.
Peter will visit us tomorrow.
Continuous Tenses
(kestvad ajad)
are used when talking about a particular
point in time
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