Introduction to verb tense | The parts of speech | Grammar | Khan Academy Video Lecture | Complete Course on English Grammar: Upgrade your Speaking & Listening - Personal Skills

hello grammarians today I want to
introduce the idea of the verb tense and
the way I want to do that is to express
the following if you can master
grammatical tenses you will become a
time wizard a literal actual time wizard
because tense is nothing more than the
ability of verbs to situate themselves
in time specifically in three different
times so in the past the present or the
future it can happen when we're talking
about a verb a verb can happen now a
verb can happen later and a verb can
have happened in the past then that's
basically it and if you master tenses
you will be able to tell stories that
span all of time and I think that that
ability is kind of astonishing that
language can express that sort of idea
to just give a very simple example I'll
just take the word talk and put it in
these three basic tenses now it does get
more complicated than this sure but
we'll cover that later so if I say if I
take the verb to talk and I put it in
the present I would just say I talk the
most basic iteration I talk in the
future I will talk and in the past I
talked this is the simple form of every
English tense past present future if you
can command all of these you will be a
time wizard that's you you can learn
anything Dave it out