What is Present simple tense?
- The base form of a verb.
- describes habits, general truths, something that happens repeatedly. E.g. I walked the dog.
What is Past continuous tense?
- Describes an action that went on for a period of time in the past e.g. ‘I was walking the dog’
What is past perfect tense?
- Describes a sequence of events in the past.
- can indicate past states & background information: ‘I had walked the dog’
What is past perfect continuous tense?
Describes the duration of a past event: ‘I had been walking the dog’
What is Future simple tense?
Describes an action that will happen in the future
What is future continuous tense?
Describes an action that will go on for a period of time in the future e.g. I will be walking the dog
What is future perfect tense?
Describes a completed action that will take place on the future
What is future perfect continuous tense?
Describes the duration of a continued activity that will have taken place in the future
What is narrated time?
The chronology of the events unfolding.
What is Narrative Time?
The rate and way in which the narrated events are told.
Narrative begins in the present tense.
I.e. a conversation that may have only lasted 20 seconds is drawn out into a longer discussion through Narrative time.
What is a Fabula?
A ‘story’
What is a sjuzhet?
The plot/organisation of events within a text
What is analepsis?
The jumps back to the past before the story itself starts
