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    This document provides an overview of English verb tenses, including: 1) Definitions of simple present, present continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, past, past continuous, past perfect, and future tenses. 2) Examples of how to conjugate verbs in each tense, such as "I watch the news every day" in simple present and "I had been watching the news for 20 minutes" in past perfect continuous. 3) Notes on forming the future, future continuous, future perfect, and future perfect continuous tenses using modal verbs like "will" and "going to".

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    This document provides an overview of English verb tenses, including: 1) Definitions of simple present, present continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, past, past continuous, past perfect, and future tenses. 2) Examples of how to conjugate verbs in each tense, such as "I watch the news every day" in simple present and "I had been watching the news for 20 minutes" in past perfect continuous. 3) Notes on forming the future, future continuous, future perfect, and future perfect continuous tenses using modal verbs like "will" and "going to".

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    This document provides an overview of English verb tenses, including: 1) Definitions of simple present, present continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, past, past continuous, past perfect, and future tenses. 2) Examples of how to conjugate verbs in each tense, such as "I watch the news every day" in simple present and "I had been watching the news for 20 minutes" in past perfect continuous. 3) Notes on forming the future, future continuous, future perfect, and future perfect continuous tenses using modal verbs like "will" and "going to".

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    PRESENT Past Perfect Continuous

    I had been watching watching the news for


    Simple Present
    20 minutes before you came home.
    Base verb (+ es/es for third person):
    FUTURE
    I watch the news every day.
    Simple Future
    Present Continuous
    Will+verb
    am/is/are + present participle: Am/is/are + going to + verb

    I am watching the news. I will watch the news / I am going to watch


    the news.
    Present Perfect
    Future Continuous
    Has/have + past participle:
    Will be + present participle
    I have watched the news already. Am/is/are + going to be + present participle:

    Present Perfect Continuous I will be watching the news at 9pm. / I am


    going to be watching the news at 9pm.
    Has/have + been + present participle:
    Future Perfect
    I have been watching the news since I was a
    teenager. Will have + past participle
    Am/is/are + going to have + past participle
    PAST I will have watched the news before 10pm. / I
    am going to have watched the news.
    Simple Past
    Future Perfect Continuous
    Verb+ed or irregular verb:
    Will have been + present participle
    I watched the news.
    Am/is/are + going to have been + present
    participle:
    Past Continuous
    I will have been watching the news for over
    Was/were + present participle: ten minutes before you join me. / I am going
    to have been watching the news for over ten
    I was watching the news. minutes before you join me.

    Past Perfect

    Had + past participle:

    I had watched the news before I went to bed.

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