Tenses Tense means time. In fact, the Spanish word for

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Tenses
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• Tense means time. In fact, the Spanish
  word for tense is tiempo, which is also the
  Spanish word for time. When we talk about
  tense, were talking about the time of the
  actionpast, present, future. Tense and
  mood, therefore, are totally different
  concepts. Mood says something about the
  perception of the action, not about the time of
  the action.

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• English has six tenses
• present he talks present perfect he has
  talked
• past he talked past perfect he had talked
• future he will talk future perfect he will
  have talked
• The future tense MUST have will.
• The present perfect MUST have has or have.
• The past perfect MUST have had.
• The future perfect MUST have will have.

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• The present, past, and future tenses are pretty
  straightforward. The present tense is used for
  whats going on right now (Im writing) or
  whats going on habitually in the present (I eat
  lunch at noon every day). The past tense is
  used to tell something that happened in the past
  (I fell down yesterday). The future tense is
  used to talk about some future action (Tomorrow
  I will read a book).

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• Perfect means complete, so all three perfect
  tenses are, in a sense, past tenses, even the
  future perfect tense.

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• The PRESENT PERFECT TENSE is used to show
  something that happened in the past but that is
  still going on
• I have lived here for five years.
• That sentence means that I lived here in the
  past and still live here.
• The present perfect is also used when the past
  action is perceived to have an impact on or a
  close relationship with the present
• Why dont you go to Subway with me?
• I have eaten already.

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• The PAST PERFECT TENSE is the past of the past.
  Whenever youre talking in the past tense and you
  want to talk about something that happened even
  before the thing youre talking about, you use
  the past perfect tense
• Yesterday I dropped a piece of crystal and broke
  it. My husband yelled and yelled at me because I
  had broken two other pieces the day before.
• The dropping of that one piece of crystal
  happened in the past (yesterday), but the
  breaking of the other two pieces happened even
  before that, so that action is in the past
  perfect tense.
• Last week my friends gave me some wacky toe
  socks because I had told them that my feet are
  always cold.
• The giving of the socks happened in the past
  (last week), but my telling them that my feet are
  always cold happened even before that, so that
  action must be in the past perfect tense.

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• The FUTURE PERFECT TENSE is the past of the
  future, in a manner of speaking. It shows
  something that will be complete at some point in
  the future.
• By the year 2050 we will have found a way to
  make a car run on water.
• 2050 is the future. Some time before then, a
  car running on water will be a reality. In 2050,
  our future, that invention will be a past
  (completed) act.

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Spanish Tenses

• The good news is that Spanish has the same six
  tenses that English has and uses them the same
  way. The bad news is that it has three other
  tenses.
• Spanish Tenses
• present present perfect
• preterit (past) pluperfect (past perfect)
• imperfect (past)
• future future perfect
• conditional conditional perfect
• As you can see, the past tense is divided
  into two tenses in Spanish, and Spanish has
  conditional and conditional perfect tenses.

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• The preterit and imperfect are two or three
  slide shows in themselves, as you should know by
  this point. The conditional and conditional
  perfect translate with would
• CONDITIONAL
• I would buy a car if I had more money.
• CONDITIONAL PERFECT
• I would have bought a car if I had had more
  money.
• The conditional MUST have would the
  conditional perfect MUST have would have (in
  the English translation.

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• You know how to form the present, the preterit,
  and the imperfect. The next series of slides
  will teach you how to form all the other tenses.