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PRESENT SIMPLE PAST SIMPLE PRESENT SIMPLE PAST SIMPLE
Every Saturday I She told me that every Do you go out with She asked me if I went out
cook paella. Saturday she cooked paella friends every Saturday? with friends every Saturday.
(used to cook paella).
PRESENT
PAST CONTINUOUS PRESENT CONTINUOUS PAST CONTINUOUS
CONTINUOUS
I’m cooking paella She told me she was Are you going out with She asked me if I was going
now. cooking then. friends today? out with friends that day.
PRESENT PERFECT PAST PERFECT PRESENT PERFECT PAST PERFECT
I have never cooked She told me she had never Have you gone out with She asked me if I had gone
paella. cooked paella. friends this week? out with friends that week.
PRESENT PERFECT PAST PERFECT PRESENT PERFECT PAST PERFECT
CONTINUOUS CONTINUOUS CONTINUOUS CONTINUOUS
I have been cooking She told me she had been Have you been going She asked me if I had been
paella since I went to cooking paella since she had out with friends since going out with friends since
Spain. gone to Spain. the weather got better? the weather had got better.
PAST SIMPLE PAST PERFECT PAST SIMPLE PAST PERFECT
I cooked paella She told me she had cooked Did you go out with She asked me if I had gone
yesterday. paella the day before. friends yesterday? out with friends the day
before.
PAST PERFECT PAST PERFECT
PAST CONTINUOUS PAST CONTINUOUS
CONTINUOUS CONTINUOUS
I was cooking paella She told me she had been Were you going out She asked me if I had been
when you came. cooking paella at the time I with friends when I going out with friends she
had come called you last night? had called me the night
before.
FUTURE SIMPLE WOULD FUTURE SIMPLE WOULD
I’ve just decided. She told me she would cook Will you go out with She asked me if I would go
I will cook paella. paella. your friends tonight? out with my friends that
They have some time to night because they had some
spare before the flight. time to spare before the
flight.
FUTURE
WOULD BE + VERB-ING FUTURE CONTINUOUS WOULD BE + VERB-ING
CONTINUOUS
I will be cooking She told me she would be Will you be going out She asked me if I would be
paella by this time cooking paella by that time with friends by this going out with friends by
tomorrow. the following day. time tomorrow? that time the following day.
FUTURE PERFECT WOULD HAVE FUTURE PERFECT WOULD HAVE
I will have cooked She told me that she would Will you have gone out She asked me if I would
the paella before you have cooked the paella with friends before I have gone out with friends
come home. before I had come home. come home? before she had come home.