Time Signal

Tanda waktu, baik kata-kata maupun ungkapan-ungkapan penunjuk waktu merupakan bantuan besar bagi kita untuk menentukan bentuk susunan kalimat dalam bentuk-bentuk waktu yang tepat dan benar. Berikut ini adalah pembagian tanda waktu sesuai dengan bentuk waktu dalam bahasa Inggris yang sering dikenal dengan 16 Tenses.

I. PRESENT

1. Simple Present

-always
-generally
-often
-regularly
-seldom
-steadily
-here
-there
-every
-now and then
-once a week
-as a rule
-normally
-usually
-never
-sometimes
-nowdays
-frequently
-occasionaly
-while
-twice

2. Present Continuous
-now
-at present
-today
-at this moment
-right now
-still
-this morning
-this afternoon
-this evening
-tonight
-soon

3. Present Perfect
-once
-three times
-several times
-this week
-this month
-this year
-just
-as yet
-up to the present time
-finally
-since yesterday
-for an hour
-for three years
-ever
-twice
-many times
-already
-not yet
-so far
-lately
-recently
-at last
-since 1999
-since ten years ago
-never

4. Present Perfect Continuous
-for...
-since...
-long
-how long
-the whole day
-all the morning
-since last month
-for over three years

II. PAST

1. Simple Past
-yesterday
-yesterday morning
-last night
-an hour ago
-a few minutes ago
-two days ago
-a year ago
-in 1998
-the day before yesterday
-the other day
-when I was child
-on Sunday morning
-so
-every day last summer

2. Past Continuous
-When the telephone rang
-... when ...
-... as ...
-... while ...
-all day yesterday
-the whole day yesterday

3. Past Continuous
-before
-after
-as soon as
-until

4. Past Perfect Continuous
-when


III. FUTURE

Simple Future, Future Continuous, Future Perfect, Future Perfect Continuous
-now
-at present
-today
-at this moment
-right now
-still
-this morning
-this afternoon
-this evening
-tonight
-soon

Tanpa will setelah temporal conjunction: if, when, while, before, after, as soon as, till, until

IV. PAST FUTURE

1. Past Future
Past Future ... if ... Simple Past

He would be happy if he got a good job

2. Past Future Continuous
In January last year
at nine o'clock yesterday

3. Past Future Perfect
Past future ... if ... past perfect
She would have stopped it if she had known about it

4. Past Future Perfect Continuous
By last Ramadhan
by the end of this month he would have been teaching at SMA 1 Tasikmalaya for six years

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