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5555555~~(This is the meaning of the cry in China) Why English to have tense!!!!!!!!!! It really is, what those present tense, the past tense, a lot of a lot of...i will crazy!! And I will to take the toefl exam... For the americans must be very simple? But for me that's difficult... that need so many toefl vocabulary .. if i can't pass the exam, i will lose chance of go USA ...

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5555555~~(This means 'crying' in China)

Why does English have (have to have) tenses? It really is (??), what are those present tenses, the past tense, a lot of a lot of... (??) I will go crazy (from studying them)!! And I will take the TOEFL exam soon... For the Americans it must be very simple, but for me it's difficult...
I need so much TOEFL vocabulary .. if I can't pass the exam, I will lose chance to go to USA ...

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English has tenses as its grammatical roots are Germanic and Latinate/Romance, both of whom use tenses rather than particles or context to convey the timeframe in which a statement is made. The common tenses in English are:

The present continuous

I am studying English. (at the moment or in general)

The simple present

I study English. (in general) 

The past continuous

I was studying English. (at a given time, or when something else happened)

The past perfect

I studied English. (but I don't any more)

The perfect past / preterite

I had studied English. (an event before another event in the past)

The future

I will study English. (in the future)

The future perfect

I will have studied English. (by the time of another event)

The conditional

I would study English. (if something else happened)

The conditional perfect

I would have studied English. (if I'd had a choice in the past)

(The present subjunctive) - not strictly a tense

Were it that I studied English... (with set expressions, mainly).

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I guess you take piano lessons in some kind of institute. So you need to "travel" to get there, 15/30 minutes? This is a good time to learn English i.e. vocabulary by cards or using a mp3 player. The "choice thing" is: Do you really want it? What is priority one in your life? If it is more important to you than anything else you will find the time. There are times when you can't practice piano. Early in the morning (I know hard to get up), or in the late evening (too tired - no excuse!) Am I too strictly? - Sorry
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but i also need practicing piano, that is my professional, if i study english use so many time, i will not enough time to play the piano ..this is so choice thing....
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Don't give up - you will make it. Try to find a Chinese friend over here who helps you to understand tenses. He/she will know best what your problem is, as he/she had been in the same situation. And you can use native language for explanations. The rest is hard work, practicing, practicing, paracticing. But as far as I know Chinese are better hard workers than most other people. May be you can group together with other students and you help each other. You have a great goal (going to USA) - make it happen, put everything else in second row.

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