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Verbs
On the SAT, you’ll find sentences that are wrong because a verb is in the wrong tense. English has six tenses, and each has a simple form and a progressive form. Simple Progressive Present I work I am working Past I worked I was working Future I will work I will be working Present Perfect I have worked I have been working Past Perfect I had worked I had been working Future Perfect I will have worked I will have been working
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1. The Present Tense
2. The Past Tense
3. The Future Tense
4. The Present Perfect Tense
5. The Past Perfect Tense
6. The Future Perfect Tense
7. The Irregular Verb Form
Verb Tense Exercise
Mastering “Verbs” for SAT Success

The past perfect tense is used to represent past actions or states that were completed before other past actions or states.

The more recent past event is expressed in the simple past, and the earlier past event is expressed in the past perfect.

** Verbs in the past perfect tense take the helping verb “had”.

              E.g. when I turned my computer on this morning, I realized that I had exited the program yesterday without saving my work.

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