我想问老师们两个问题:
1.你们目前感觉时态难吗？
2.你们当初学时态时感觉难吗？
我发现网友曹强对动词时态一直非常纠结，这从他以前的提问中可以看得出来。我感觉，时态不是特别难学，重要是：不要把16 种时态混在一块学习和理解。你仅需把最常见的8 种时态先学会了，然后再适合扩展。
其实，现实语言中，11 种时态就够了，学会了这8 种时态后，再学习目前完成进行时、以后进行时和以后完成时，也不迟。
时态问题，是动词的一个语法范畴。任何一本语法书都讲得太多太多，无须在这里重复和赘述了。由于语法书讲得太多太具体，反而没办法系统理解和学会，给学习带来障碍！我只不过从个人视角讲解这个问题。
▲关于时态的时间范畴问题，我觉得如此划分和记忆更有益于学习和学会：
是目前时间范畴的时态：通常目前时，目前进行时，目前完成时，通常以后时。
这4 种时态表达的定义与目前时间有关。
是过去时间范畴的时态：通常过去时，过去进行时，过去完成时，过去以后时。
这4 种时态表达的定义与过去时间有关。
如此划分时态的时间范畴，目的是为了时态的一致和呼应，防止时态出错！把通常以后时归到目前时间范畴，由于目前时间和以后时间在语法意义上非常难完全离别。
▲请牢记这8 个句子：
1. We write a composition every week.
2. I am writing a composition now.
3. Tom has written his composition and he wants to play.
4. We will write a composition next Monday.
（目前时间范畴的时态）
5. Mary wrote a composition last night.
6. He was writing a composition when I got to his house.
7. I had written my composition before the bell rang.
8. She said she would write a composition next week.
（过去时间范畴的时态）
▲【8 种基本时态用于一篇短文】 好好领会就是了。
I got a letter from my sister yesterday. She lives in a foreign country. In her letter, she said that she would come to China next year. If she comes, she will get a surprise. We are living in a beautiful new house now. The building work on it had begun before my sister left. The house was completed almost a year ago. It has been the only modern house in this area ever since.
I still remember that so many of us were living in a very small house when my sister left home. But now the new house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden. Though it looks strange to some people, it is really very comfortable.
