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2008

Prizren / Kosovo
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madopol@yahoo.com
Prizren / Kosovo

ENGLISH TENSES TIMELINE CHART


This timeline tenses chart provides a handy reference sheet to English
tenses and their relationship to one another and the past, present and
future. Conjugated verbs are highlighted in bold. Tenses which are rarely
used in everyday conversation are marked by an asterik (*).

TIMELINE
(PROGRESSIVE) (PROGRESSIVE)
SIMPLE SIMPLE
CONTINUOUS CONTINUOUS
ACTIVE PASSIVE
ACTIVE PASSIVE
PAST
TIME
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The painting ^ The house had been


She had
had been | I had been waiting being painted for over
already
sold twice PAST for four hours when a month before they
eaten when
before it was PERFECT he finally arrived. began to decorate the
I arrived.
destroyed. | interior. *
|
The book
I bought a was written ^ The problem was being
| I was watching TV
new car last in 1876 by solved when I arrived
PAST when she arrived.
week. Mark late for class.
|
Garland.
|
The
She has company ^
She has been
lived in has been | The students have been
working at
Somerset managed by PRESENT being taught for the
Countdown for six
for many Neil Haines PERFECT last four hours. *
months.
years. for the last |
two years. |
2008

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