Can you see the scrunched up face of your least favourite human already? Don't know, "Are you understanding" seems like the preserve of frustrated teachers. These are the ones who perpetually claim how the students of the other division are way better than the hooligans in your class. Surely, the teachers repeat the same lines next door, but anyway. Mind you, "Are you understanding?" is grammatically incorrect because of some unfathomable difference between present continuous and present perfect tense. Please use "Do you understand?"
Tenses. Phew. School... BIGGER Phew. Wow, school was a good nine years ago. Facial hair, pubic hair, and other bulbous, beautiful things sprouting, weird subjects, scribbly, doodly notebooks, la-la-la, blah-blah-blah, and just like Ringa-Ringa roses, it all came crashing down. Or was it all falls down? Who the fuck wrote Ringa-Ringa? And who, really, who runs with a pocketful of posies? For those of you who don't know, posies are a small bunch of flowers. I didn't know that either, till I asked Google aunty just five minutes ago.
On the 25th of this November, some of us will take up the arduous task of belling the CAT. This is not one of your regular mini-felines. It's a beast that takes no prisoners apparently. But if you tie the bell around it, you will be rewarded. Hope it's not like the "If you ace your 10th board exams, your name will be etched on some obscure wall of fame." burger that our parents fed us. Well, I bet it will be the exact same burger, this time without the patty. Nah, just kidding. The CAT is the gateway to some of the most prestigious management education institutions in India, and also that to a supremely prosperous life. (Pssst.. text copied from the brochure of some MBA college).
Yours truly, like many of you, intends to bell the CAT this year. And to bell the CAT, or as the lingo goes, 'crack the CAT', you need to have some idea of tenses. Yup, it's that aspect of grammar that deals with time. Past, present, future and their many ghosts. Each tense is further divided into four types.
For instance, the Present tense is divided into Simple Present, Present Perfect, Present Continuous, and Present Perfect Continuous. It's likewise with Past and Future.
Let's look at some examples.
Simple Present: He is mad.
Present Perfect: He is perfectly mad.*
Present Continuous: He's getting there, madness.*
Perfect Continuous: Ahh.. this form of the tense is seldom used, so let's chuck it altogether.
*Please do not, even mistakenly, take these for actual examples.
So that's a wrap for Day 1. Goodness knows what monsters the keyboard will unleash in the next 140-odd days.
Tenses. Phew. School... BIGGER Phew. Wow, school was a good nine years ago. Facial hair, pubic hair, and other bulbous, beautiful things sprouting, weird subjects, scribbly, doodly notebooks, la-la-la, blah-blah-blah, and just like Ringa-Ringa roses, it all came crashing down. Or was it all falls down? Who the fuck wrote Ringa-Ringa? And who, really, who runs with a pocketful of posies? For those of you who don't know, posies are a small bunch of flowers. I didn't know that either, till I asked Google aunty just five minutes ago.
On the 25th of this November, some of us will take up the arduous task of belling the CAT. This is not one of your regular mini-felines. It's a beast that takes no prisoners apparently. But if you tie the bell around it, you will be rewarded. Hope it's not like the "If you ace your 10th board exams, your name will be etched on some obscure wall of fame." burger that our parents fed us. Well, I bet it will be the exact same burger, this time without the patty. Nah, just kidding. The CAT is the gateway to some of the most prestigious management education institutions in India, and also that to a supremely prosperous life. (Pssst.. text copied from the brochure of some MBA college).
Yours truly, like many of you, intends to bell the CAT this year. And to bell the CAT, or as the lingo goes, 'crack the CAT', you need to have some idea of tenses. Yup, it's that aspect of grammar that deals with time. Past, present, future and their many ghosts. Each tense is further divided into four types.
For instance, the Present tense is divided into Simple Present, Present Perfect, Present Continuous, and Present Perfect Continuous. It's likewise with Past and Future.
Let's look at some examples.
Simple Present: He is mad.
Present Perfect: He is perfectly mad.*
Present Continuous: He's getting there, madness.*
Perfect Continuous: Ahh.. this form of the tense is seldom used, so let's chuck it altogether.
*Please do not, even mistakenly, take these for actual examples.
So that's a wrap for Day 1. Goodness knows what monsters the keyboard will unleash in the next 140-odd days.
