Are there 12 or 16 tenses in English?
The simple tenses (past, present, and future) are the most basic forms, but there are 12 major verb tenses in English in all.
What is V1 V2 V3 in tenses?
At school, students often learn by heart the base, past simple and past participle (sometimes called V1, V2, V3, meaning Verb 1, Verb 2, Verb 3) for irregular verbs. They may spend many hours chanting: sing, sang, sung; go, went, gone; have, had, had; etc.