Text Based Skill 2- Grammar

Reported by New Zealand Herald, a mother is going to face a jail term because she assaulted her 7 years old son with a wooden spoon, and left him 4cm welts. Here is a link to this article. The case has become a political argument between the National Party and Green Party. Most of the verbs in the article are past simple forms that describe the past affairs. There is an example of present perfect simple passive form, i.e. “He has been removed from the home”, to mean something has been done over a period of time. There is an example of past perfect simple form “she had taken on too much and realized she needed help”, to mean it had happened in the past. An example of future simple passive form, “She will be sentenced in the Napier District Court on May 3”. An example of past continuous form, “he was taking too long to get ready for tee-ball”. An example of present continuous form, “the mother is trying to regain custody”.