Tenses What is Tense? Tense means time. Usually in grammars tense is defined as a verbal category relating the time of a narrated event to the time of the speech event. How many types of Tenses are there? There are three types of Tenses. Present simple, past simple and future simple tense.These tenses are further divided into simple Tense , continuous Tense, Perfect Tense and Perfect continuous Tense. Types of Tenses and their example. 1:Simple present Tense subject+ 1st form of verb+ object Example: I open the door. I do not open the door. Do I open the door? Do I not open the door? 2:Simple past Tense Subject + 2nd form of verb + object Example: We bought a book. We did not buy a book. Did we buy a book? Did we not buy a book? 3: Simple Future Tense Subject+will/shall+1st form of verb+object Example: He will go to London. He will not go to London. Will he go to London? Will he not go to London? 4: Present continuous Tense Subject+Is/am...