VERB TENSES CHART

PRESENT PAST FUTURE PRESENT PAST PERFECT FUTURE

PERFECT PERFECT
USE : It is used for actions in USE : It is used for completed USE : It is used for actions USE : It is used to show USE : It is usually used to USE : It is used to show that
the present, for things that are actions and events in the past. and events in the future. that an event happened or an show that an event something will be
always true or that happen action was completed at happened or an action was completed before a
regularly, and for opinions and some time before the completed before a particular time in the future.
beliefs. Present. particular time in the past.
SIMPLE

FORM: FORM: FORM: FORM: FORM: FORM:

I/we/you/they help (do not help) I/we/you/they helped I/we/you/they will help I/we/you/they have helped I/we/you/they had helped I/we/you/they will have helped
(did not help) (will not help) (have not helped) (had not helped) (will not have helped)
he/she/it helps (does not help)
he/she/it helped he/she/it will help he/she/it has helped he/she/it had helped he/she/it will have helped
(did not help) (will not help) (has not helped) (had not helped) (will not have helped)

USE : It is used for actions or
events that are happening or
developing now, for future
plans, or to show that an event is
repeated.
CONTINUOUS
USE : It is used for actions or
events in the past that were not
yet finished or that were
interrupted.
USE : It is used for actions or
events in the future that will
continue into the future.
USE : It is used for actions or
events that started in the
past but are still happening
now, or for past actions which
only recently finished and
whose effects are seen now.
USE : It is used for actions USE : It is used for actions
or events that happened for or events that will already
a period of time but were be happening at a particular
completed before a time in the future
particular time in the past.

FORM:
FORM: FORM: FORM: FORM: FORM:
I/we/you/they have been
I am helping (am not helping) I was helping (was not helping) I/we/you/they will be helping I/we/you/they had been helping I/we/you/they will have
helping
(will not be helping) (had not been helping) been helping
(have not been helping)
we/you/they are helping we/you/they were helping (will not have
(are not helping) (were not helping) he/she/it had been helping been helping)
he/she/it has been helping
he/she/it will be helping (had not been helping)
(has not been helping)
he/she/it is helping (is not helping) he/she/it was helping (will not be helping) he/she/it will have been
(was not helping) helping
(will not have been
helping)