This document summarizes the main English tenses including the simple present, simple past, present continuous, and present perfect tenses. It provides the use, form, and examples for each tense to concisely explain how to express habits, completed past actions, ongoing actions, and completed actions that began in the past.
This document summarizes the main English tenses including the simple present, simple past, present continuous, and present perfect tenses. It provides the use, form, and examples for each tense to concisely explain how to express habits, completed past actions, ongoing actions, and completed actions that began in the past.
This document summarizes the main English tenses including the simple present, simple past, present continuous, and present perfect tenses. It provides the use, form, and examples for each tense to concisely explain how to express habits, completed past actions, ongoing actions, and completed actions that began in the past.
This document summarizes the main English tenses including the simple present, simple past, present continuous, and present perfect tenses. It provides the use, form, and examples for each tense to concisely explain how to express habits, completed past actions, ongoing actions, and completed actions that began in the past.
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TABLE OF ENGLISH TENSES
Tense Use Form Example
Simple Express habit Verbs: Verbs: Present or general (+) Subject + V1 (s/es) (+) She washes her truth. (-) Subject + don’t or doesn’t + V1 clothes. (?) Do/does + Subject + V1? (-) She doesn’t wash her clothes. To be: (?) Does she wash her (+) Subject + is/am/are + Predicate clothes? (-) Subject + is/am/are + not + Predicate To be: (?) Is/am/are + Subject + (+) They are students. Predicate? (-) They aren’t students. (?) Are They students? Simple Past Express (+) Subject + Verb2 (+) You studied last completed (-) Subject + did + not + Verb1 night. action in the (?) Did + Subject + Verb1? (-) You didn’t study last past. night. (?) Did you study last night? Present Express an (+) Subject + is/am/are + Verb-ing (+) We are reading. Continuous action going (-) Subject + is/am/are + not + (-) We aren’t reading. on at the time Verb-ing (?) Are We reading? of speaking. (?) Is/am/are + Subject + Verb- ing? Present Express an (+) Subject + has/have + Verb3 (+) He has done his Perfect action which (-) Subject + has/have + not + homework. you have Verb3 (-) He hasn’t done his done. (?) Has/have + Subject + Verb3? homework. Express an (?) Has he done his action started homework? in the past and continued until now.