Tenses

How they are formed.

When are they used.
Typical situations for each usage.
PRESENT
Simple - BE
Simple DO
Continuous
Perfect Simple
Perfect Continuous

Segedige
Be
Be
Be
Have
Have Been

Ige alakja
fonev/melleknev
DO/DOES
DOING
DONE
DONE

Usage:
Present
Simple
Usage
1. Habit
2. Repeated Action
3. Facts
4. General Truth
5. Stories / Commentaries/ Instructions

6. Time Tables

7. Senses / Not in our control

8. sentences beginning with I suggest etc

9. words we dont use in continuous

Example sentence
I bite my nails.
I read books.
I play tennis every Tuesday
Once a month I ride a horse
The Earth is round
Water boils at 100 C.
Nurses work hard
I like chocolate
I hate spinache
Snowhite goes into the house
and takes her coat of
Beckham shoots and it's a
goal!!!
The play starts at 7 and
finishes at 9.30.
The train leaves 10 o'clock
e.g: see/hear/taste/smell/touch
know/understand/feel/forget
etc...
I know you. I can hear you.
I promise to take the rubbish
out
I pormise, I suggest, I believe, I
apologise, I advise, I insist, I agree, I
refuse etc
like, love, hate, prefer, want,
need
know, realise, suppose, mean,
understand, believe, rember
belong, fit, contain, consist,
seem

Continuous
Usage

Example sentence

1. Time of Speaking (Now)

2. Periods around now (today, this week,
this year)
3. Action Started but not Finished

4. Temporary Situations
5. "Always" (Complaining)

6. Changes

I am reading a book now.

I am running.
You are working hadr today!
The company I work for isnt
doing so well this year.
I am learning to drive
They are decorating their
house.
She is staying with friends.
I am walking to work this week.
I am always losing things.
You are always listening to loud
music.
It is starting to rain.
It is getting dark.
get, change, beocme, increase,
rise, fall, grow, improve, begin,
start

Perfect Simple
Usage
The result of an action is more important
than the action itself
Something has happened (news, new
information)
With just/already/yet
A period of time from the past until now
(ever/never)
Something that has happened recently

For / Since

Example sentence
Ive lost my key.
Ow! Ive cut my finger.
I have just arrived.
I have alreay eaten.
Have you eaten yet?
Have you ever eaten caviar?
I have never been to Spain.
I have eaten recently.
We havent had any problems
so far
recently, in the last few days,
so far, since, for
For a long time
Since I last saw him

Perfect Continuous
Usage

Example sentence

Usage

Example sentence

Usage
In the middle of doing something at a

Example sentence
At 10.30 yesterday they were

Past
Simple

Continuous

certain time
(poirot)
Something happens in the middle of
something else
The action was going on for a longer
period

playing tennis
Matt phoned while we were
having dinner
It was raining when I got up.
I was working hard all day

Perfect Simple
Usage

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Perfect Continuous
Usage

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Usage

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Usage

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Future
Simple

Continuous

Perfect Simple
Usage

Example sentence

Perfect Continuous
Usage

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