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Tense Signal words Use something happens repeatedly how often something happens one action follows another Form infinitive he/she/it + -s

Simple Present or Present Simple

every day

sometimes

always

often

things in general

usually

with the following verbs (to love, to hate, to think, etc.)

seldom

future meaning: timetables, programmes

never

first ... then something is happening at the to be same time of (am/are/is) + speaking or infinitive + -ing around it

Present Progressive or

now

Present Continuous

future meaning: when you have already decided at the moment and arranged to do it (a fixed plan, date)

Look!

Listen!

Simple Past

last ...

action took place regular: in the past, infinitive + -ed irregular:

or Past Simple

... ago

2nd column of table of irregular verbs

in 1990

yesterday

Past Progressive or

while

an action happened in the was/were + middle of another infinitive + -ing action

Past Continuous

someone was doing sth. at a certain time (in the past) - you do not know whether it was finished or not

Simple

just

you say that sth. has happened or is finished in the have/has + past and it has a past participle* connection to the present

Present Perfect or Present Perfect

yet action started in the past and continues up to the present *(infinitive + ed) or (3rd column of table of irregular verbs)

never ever already so far, up to now, since

for

recently all day action began in have/has + the past and has been + just stopped infinitive + -ing

Present Perfect Progressive or Present Perfect Continuous

how long the the whole day action has been happening

how long

emphasis: length of time of an action

since

for

Simple

already

mostly when two actions in a story are related to each other: the action which had had + past already participle* happened is put into Past Perfect, the other action into Simple Past

Past Perfect or Past Perfect (Simple) Past Perfect Progressive or Past Perfect Continuous
since how long something had been happening had + been + infinitive + ing never just the past of the Present Perfect *(infinitive + ed) or (3rd column of table of irregular verbs)

how long

for predictions about the future (you think that sth. will happen)

will - future

will + infinitive

you decide to do sth. spontaneously at the time of speaking, you haven't made a decision before

main clause in type I of the if clauses

going to - future

when you have already decided to do sth. in the future

be (am/are/is) + going to + infinitive

what you think what will happen

Future Progressive or

An action will be in progress at a certain time in will + be + the future. This infinitive + ing action has begun before the certain time.

Future Continuous
Something happens because it normally happens.

Simple Future Perfect

sth. will already have happened before a certain

will + have + past participle*

*(infinitive + ed) or (3rd column of table of irregular verbs)

or Future Perfect Simple Future Perfect Progressive or Future Perfect Continuous Conditional Simple
sth. that might happen main clause in type II of the Conditional sentences would + infinitive emphasis: length of time of an action sth. will already will + have + have happened been + before a certain infinitive + ing time in the future

Conditional Progressive or Conditional Continuous Conditional Perfect

sth. that might happen

would + be + infinitive + ing

emphasis: length of time of an action

sth. that might have happened in the past (It's too late now.)

would + have + past participle*

*(infinitive + ed) or (3rd column of table of irregular verbs)

main clause in type III of the if clauses

Conditional Perfect Progressive or Conditional Perfect Continuous

sth. that might have happened in the past (It's too late now.) emphasis: length of time of an action

would + have + been + infinitive + ing

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Examples affirmative I work. Examples negative I don't work. Examples interrogative Do I work?

He works. I go. He goes.

He doesn't work. I don't go.

Does he work? Do I go?

He doesn't go. Does he go? I'm not working.

I'm working.

Am I working?

He's working. I'm going. He's going. I worked.

He isn't working.

Is he working?

I'm not going. Am I going? He isn't going. Is he going? I didn't work. Did I work?

He worked. I went. He went. I was working. He was working.

He didn't work. I didn't go. He didn't go. I wasn't working. He wasn't working.

Did he work? Did I go? Did he go? Was I working?

Was he working?

I was going.

I wasn't going.

Was I going?

He was going.

He wasn't going.

Was he going?

I have worked.

I haven't worked.

Have I worked?

He has worked. I have gone.

He hasn't worked. I haven't gone.

Has he worked? Have I gone?

He has gone. I have been working.

He hasn't gone.

Has he gone?

I haven't been Have I been working. working?

He has been He hasn't Has he been working. been working. working? I have been going. He has been going. I haven't been Have I been going? going. He hasn't Has he been going? been going.

I had worked.

I hadn't worked.

Had I worked?

He had worked. I had gone. He had gone. I had been working.

He hadn't worked. He hadn't gone. I hadn't been working.

Had he worked?

I hadn't gone. Had I gone? Had he gone? Had I been working?

He had been He hadn't Had he been working. been working. working? I had been going. I hadn't been going. Had I been going?

He had been He hadn't going. been going.

Had he been going?

I'll work.

I won't work. Will I work?

He'll work.

He won't work.

Will he work?

I'll go. He'll go.

I won't go. He won't go.

Will I go? Will he go?

I'm going to I'm not going work. to work. He's going to work.

Am I going to work?

He's not going Is he going to to work. work? Am I going to go?

I'm going to I'm not going go. to go. He's going to go.

He's not going Is he going to go? to go.

I'll be working.

I won't be working.

Will I be working?

He'll be working. I'll be going. He'll be going. I'll have worked.

He won't be working. I won't be going. He won't be going. I won't have worked.

Will he be working?

Will I be going?

Will he be going? Will I have worked?

He'll have worked. I'll have gone. He'll have gone. I'll have been working.

He won't have Will he have worked. worked? I won't have Will I have gone? gone. He won't have Will he have gone? gone. I won't have Will I have been been working. working?

He'll have been working. I'll have been going. He'll have been going. I would work.

He won't have Will he have been been working. working? I won't have been going. Will I have been working?

He won't have Will he have been been going. working? I wouldn't work. Would I work? Would he work?

He would work.

He wouldn't work.

I would go.

I wouldn't go. Would I go? Would he go? Would I be working? Would he be working? Would I be going? Would he be going?

He would go. He wouldn't go. I would be working. I wouldn't be working.

He would be He wouldn't working. be working. I would be going. I wouldn't be going.

He would be He wouldn't going. be going. I would have worked. He would have worked. I would have gone.

I wouldn't Would I have have worked. worked? He wouldn't Would he have have worked. worked?

I wouldn't have gone.

Would I have gone?

He would have gone. I would have been working.

He wouldn't have gone. I wouldn't have been working.

Would I have gone? Would I have been working?

He would have been going. I would have been going. He would have been

He wouldn't have been going. I wouldn't have been going. He wouldn't have been

Would he have been working? Would I have been going? Would he have been going?