TENSES

TENSES
t
Present
Future
Past
continuous
perfect
perfect continuous
simple
continuous
perfect
perfect continuous
simple
continuous
perfect
perfect continuous
simple

t
Present simple tense
Regularly
Often
Sometimes
Never
Usually
Every day
Twice a week
Once a month
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t
Present continuous tense
Now
Right now
At the moment
Nowadays
These days
NOW
+ -
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continuous
process
- ing

t
Present perfect tense
Just
Already
Yet
since
+
-
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NOW
When?

t
Present perfect continuous tense
for
since
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NOW

t
Past simple tense
Yesterday
Last week
Last month
Last year
Two days ago
Three months ago
NOW

t
Past continuous tense
At 3 pm
When the phone rang
When my Mum came home
At 10 am
NOW

t
Past perfect tense
Before
we did smth in the past /
smth happened in the past
NOW
Past simple

t
Past perfect continuous tense
Before
we did smth in the past /
smth happened in the past
NOW
Past simple

t
Future simple tense
Tomorrow
In two days
Next week
Next month
On Wednesday to come
NOW

Future cases
Will do it tomorrow
‘m going to do it tomorrow
‘m doing it tomorrow
The train leaves
The course begins
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-
-
-
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programmes
Timetable
present simple tense

t
Future continuous tense
Tomorrow at 3 pm
NOW

t
Future perfect tense
By 3 pm tomorrow
NOW

t
Future perfect continuous tense
By 3 pm tomorrow
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NOW
will have been doing
will not (won’t) have been doing
Will you have been doing…?