I Play Cricket 12 Tenses

[Jenifer Griffard]

The continuous form is used to state or ask what was, is or will be happening at a given moment. So, if you call your friend and ask: What are you doing? she may answer: I'm playing cricket (for example, she is standing on the boundary with her phone in her pocket when you call).

If you tell your friend that you intend to call her around 7pm tomorrow, she may reply: Sorry, but I'll be playing cricket. In other words, around the time that you plan to phone, she will be on the cricket field and unable to take your call. (The simple future I will play cricket is not possible in this context.)

Perhaps you could ask your friend why he or she changed your perfectly usual statement into one that would be perceived by native speakers as extremely odd. It would also be useful to link to the BBC English page referred to in the question.

Earlier that morning, she had screamed when a staff member had turned the TV on in her room. When asked why, she said that there were small men in coloured clothes in the corner playing cricket in a box. There had been a game the night before, and the highlights were being shown on the news.

Somehow, her father had kept from her the news of the loss of the Titanic and to her, in 1915 and 1988, it was still the greatest ship afloat. I was talking to someone who had seen the Titanic, but had no idea it had sunk.

Whenever they do play, like most recently during the unforgettable contest at last year's T20 World Cup in front of 90,000 fans in Melbourne amid surreal scenes, it's a chance for diplomacy in a volatile part of the world.

The bickering has reared for some time over September's six-team Asia Cup in Pakistan, who will be hosting their first major ICC event since international cricket resumed in the country mid last decade after a period of exile following a terrorist attack on Sri Lanka's team bus in 2009.

India have indicated they will not travel to Pakistan due to its government's wishes, citing ongoing diplomatic tensions and security concerns. This has started a squabble with the Pakistan Cricket Board proposing that India plays its Asia Cup matches in the U.A.E.

India should not be looking at a situation where we end up boycotting the Asia Cup and also the World Cup, and then India ends up boycotting the Champions Trophy (which Pakistan hosts in 2025). That will be a huge mess.

To milk this money-spinner of a contest, ensuring important funds for grassroots projects in the region, India and Pakistan play each other two times with the potential of a third if they both qualify for the final.

It heightens the importance of Pakistan and India finding some type of middle ground. "It needs to be sorted. The only thing that matters is the safety and security of the players," former PCB boss and ex-ICC president Ehsan Mani recently told me.

"I used to say to (former India cricket boss) Sourav Ganguly that 'things aren't good between the countries, but it's political'. When things change, one of the things will be to restart cricket again (between the countries).

Hi, Shawn. I am not sure I understand what you are asking. Message me if you want and I'll try to help. Or you can re-word what you want back here.Best wishes, Paul L.

Hi Shawn... Please check if the sentence is correct... My guess is it should be, Goppal broke the window pane while playing cricket outside... And if that is the case, if we are using question tags it will be; "Goppal broke the window pane while playing cricket outside, didn't he?"

To make a tag question, we use the appropriate auxiliary verb, followed by the subject pronoun. Notice that if the main clause (segment) of the sentence is affirmative (+), the tag segment is negative (-). And vice versa.

Fill in the blanks with Past Perfect, Past Simple, or the Past Perfect Continuous Tense. (5)
1. He had forgotten my name, so I reminded him.
2. After he had finished his studies, he lived in England for two years.
3. The artist had finished the painting at exactly three o'clock.
4. She had studied French for two years when she went to Paris.
5. She had been cooking the meal for over an hour when we arrived at the house.

1) The population of the world is increasing very fast.
2) The world changes. Things never stay the same.
3) It's a nice day. I suggest we go out for a walk.
4) The cost of living increases. Every year things are more expensive.
5) The River Amazon flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

Additional Activities Identify the tense of the underlined verb in each sentence. 1. She will attend a conference in Washington. 2. Barbara and Marie refused to sign the petition. 3. The dancers rehearse everyday. 4. Storytelling existed before written history. 5. Blue jays have many unusual habits. 6. A squirrel drops its nuts when it gets frightened. 7. A good story will have action and drama. 8. We spotted a bird with red wings and tail. 9. The animals' unpleasant shrieks warn other animals of danger. 10. We will practice our math skills this year.

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Fill in the blanks with the correct present tenses of the verbs. He wakes up at 6 a.m. every day to play cricket. I have met her before. It has been raining since morning. I watched the film, The Sound of Music, yesterday. It has been playing tennis since my doctor advised me to lose weight. Shankar's health is improving every day. It has beautiful songs.

1. He goes to school everyday.
2. I am going to watch a match tonight.
3. I have seen that movie twenty times.
4. Does she like mangoes?
5. Harry has been living in Mumbai since 2015.
6. Mother always bakes delicious cakes.
7. My brother and I are not participating in the upcoming competition.
8. Have you taken your breakfast?
9. Are they dropping mother to the airport in the afternoon?
10. We have not been working on it for long.

1) Harish worked in his garden when we called him.
2) The children submitted their notebooks to the teachers.
3) We were listening to music when father arrived from the airport.
4) The manager made all the necessary arrangements.
5) My friend was studying when I reached her house.

Narrative tenses are important when you're telling a story. Listen to Catherine, Neil and Rob from the Learning English team talking about some interesting experiences they've had. Not everyone is telling the truth! Try to work out who's telling porky pies (lies), then test your understanding.

Neil, Catherine and Rob all have some interesting and sometimes amusing stories to tell you but how true are they? Have a listen to them here and work out which one is fact and which ones are fiction. Only one story is fact - that is, it really happened. As you listen see if you can spot the narrative tenses being used.

So who was telling the truth? Even if a story sounds unbelievable, it may be true - and that is the case with Catherine's story. Her grandfather really didn't go to war because of his superb cricket skills. But Rob and Neil's stories were just fictional - they were made up!

Last week-end I travelled to visit my relatives by train and I was reading an interesting detective novel. All of a sudden the man stood up, we sat opposite one another. While he was going away he gave me a wink and left a folded piece of paper on his seat.

Last month I spent some days at my parents' house. On a Sunday morning I was getting ready to go out when I suddenly heard strange rumours. I had just started the washing machine, so I assumed that something was going wrong with its operation. However, after a few seconds I understood that the rumours were coming from the outside. I opened the house's door and discovered that a woman was staying trapped in the lift, together with her dog. She was hitting on the lift internal walls, trying to attract someone's attention. Her dog was very nervous, and its barks almost covered her voice! I offered to dial the emergency number, but she asked me to warn her husband right away. I moved to her apartment immediately. After being informed, her husband didn't appear very worried... He seemed quite annoyed by my intrusion instead! I went back to the lift and pushed the call button, as suggested by the entrapped woman. Surprisingly, the lift started moving! Everything came good in the end... However, I had to return home quickly, because the dog looked very angry with me!

I know that what I am going to tell might be incredible, but this was the seventh year in a row that I was awarded the B.L. prize. I was sitting in my place when I heard the ritual words "and the winner is..." and, after my name was pronounced, I headed for the presenter to pick up the prize. While Photographers was taking pictures of me, I shook hands with very famous people such as Bono Vox, George Clooney and Angelina Jolie. Obviously, I had to make a speech to the audience and the millions of people watching TV.

When I was younger I jumped in parachute some times. I had to travel from Madrid to San Chidrin every weekend for two months to get the license and experience. It was funny but first time I jumped things were different that we had prepared. Rookies had preference to get on a plane so a friend and I were waiting for our moment when suddenly two men dressed in suits made a corridor with his arms and they permitted to get on the plane to other paratrooper that I'd never seen before.

Our coach was at his side, the unknown paratrooper was as young as we were, he was tall and he had problems with the helmet because of his hair. The coach accompanied him during the flight. We saw him other times but he never joined us. He was the son of a minister and the last year he was the minister of justice here.

When I was a student, I was really short of money. I had to have an evening part-time work at the nursery. What happen was one day children had gone home with their parents, the last boy stayed there. It was about time to close our nursery, the boy was tired and wanted to his mum, he was crying a little. Finally I saw an old woman coming through the gate. She asked me, where Alex was. I thought the boy was her grandson. I asked her to give me his mum`s permission to take the boy and brought him. All of a sudden she began shouting at me. She screamed, that it wasn`t Alex, where her sweet boy was and what I had done with him. She called me stupid girl and so on. Can you imagine it? There was no one around, I had only one little crying boy two or three years old. He couldn`t speak and couldn`t tell me anything. The woman told me, that she lived in another town and came to visit her daughter and grandson. And then it dawned on me. There were two kindergartens in our street, separated by an alley. I asked her, how old Alex was. She replied that he was six. Our kindergarten was for children from two to four. I explained her how she could find another kindergarten where her dearest Alex was missing her.

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