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Past participle - This can be in various forms

en e.g beat - beaten
ed e.g walk - walked
unchanged e.g hit - hit
changed e.g - seek - sought
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Future Tense

This is the tense carrying modal auxiliaries and lexical verbs

Will and Shall are the modal auxiliaries used especially for indicating future actions.

Only I and We can however be used with shall, while he, she, it, you, they cannot be used with Shall
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Rule guiding Tenses

When as if is used, the following verb should be in past form

He walks as if he were a king (not is)
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Rule 2

When supposed is used, the expression is

Subject + primary auxiliary+ supposed

Example
John is supposed to

John - subject
Primary auxiliary - is

Not:
John supposed to
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Rule 3

When has, have or had is used, you should not indicate any definite time when the action was performed

He went yesterday (Correct)

He has gone yesterday (wrong)

But if you wish to use any of has/have/had with the time of action you must put for or since before the time indicated

Example
He has gone since five o'clock

He has gone for three hours
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Rule 4

When has/have/had is used, the verb that follows it must be a past participle one

He has eaten, not: He has ate

We have written our notes, not: We have write
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Rule 5
When mind, minded, help, like, being kept, etc are used

I couldn't help laugh + ing yesterday

Not: I couldn't help to laugh yesterday

We do not mind singing

Not: We do not mind to sing
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Rule 6

Wish + Subject+ Past tense verb

I wish I knew you

I wish I were you
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Attempt

What a relief that the strike _ when it did.

A.) Would end
B) Was ending
C)ended
D) has ended
E) ending
Did indicates that it was done in the past, so as past tense should be used
It is high time you ____ the market

A. Left
B. Leave
C. Did leave
D. Do leave
Note:

When high time is used in an expression, the verb to be used is past tense
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So, the answer is left
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Rule 7

Subject+ happened/seem/appeared+ to have + past participle

They happened to have offended me
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Rule 8

After it's time or high time, a past tense verb should be used

It is time Jude went home

It is high time James came back
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Rule 9

If you travel, you will learn

Travel is in present tense, so a present tense verb should follow (will)

If you travelled, you would learn

Travelled is in past tense, so a past tense verb should follow
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Attempt

We _ believed__
A)are/to died
B) were/ to died
C) are/to have died
D) were/to have died
D is correct 💯 👍
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Believed is in past tense, so a past tense verb should follow

Were is in past tense form
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