Past, present, or future?(Analyzing Ideas)

From: Know Your World Extra | Date: April 7, 2006 | Copyright information

People write about things that have already happened (past). They write about things that are happening now (present). And they write about things that will happen (future). To figure out when something happened, pay close attention to the action word, or verb. Use this table of clues to help you decide whether to write past, present, or future in the blank beside each sentence below. 

  PAST CLUES  
  
     PRESENT CLUES        FUTURE CLUES verb ends in -ed   verb ends  in -ing    verb comes after will the word was       the words is or am  words such as later

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