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Tense Table PDF
Tense Table PDF
Blue → Infinitive ,
Dark Red → Irregular Verbs In The Simple Past
Red → Negation
Dark Green → Auxiliary
Purple → Past Participle
Orange → Ending
Light Green → Signal Word
Examples
Tense Signal words Use Form Examples affirmative Examples negative
interrogative
something happens repeatedly
how often something happens I work. I don't work. Do I work?
Every day
sometimes one action follows another
Infinitive
always often things in general He works. He doesn't work. Does he work?
Simple
usually seldom with verbs like (to love, to hate,
Present He/She/It:
never to think, etc.) I go. I don't go. Do I go?
Infinitive + S
future meaning: timetables,
First ... Then programmes He goes. He doesn't go. Does he go?
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Of Table Of He has gone. He hasn’t gone. Has he gone?
Irregular Verbs)
I haven't been
All day
action began in the past and I have been working. working. Have I been working?
The whole day has just stopped
Present how long the action has been He has been working. He hasn't been Has he been working?
Have/Has + Been
Perfect How long happening working.
+ Infinitive + Ing
Progressive I have been going. Have I been going?
Since emphasis: length of time of an I haven't been going.
action He has been going. Has he been going?
For
He hasn't been going.
mostly when two actions in a
Had + Past I had worked. I hadn't worked. Had I worked?
story are related to each other:
Already Participle*
the action which had already
He had worked. He hadn't worked. Had he worked?
Simple Past happened is put into Past
Just *(Infinitive + Ed)
Perfect Perfect, the other action into
Or (3rd Column I had gone. I hadn't gone. Had I gone?
Simple Past
Never Of Table Of
the past of the Present Perfect
Irregular Verbs) He had gone. He hadn't gone. Had he gone?
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*(Infinitive + Ed) I'll have gone. I won't have gone. Will I have gone?
Or (3rd Column
Of Table Of He'll have gone. He won't have gone. Will he have gone?
Irregular Verbs)
I won't have been Will I have been
working. working?
I'll have been working.
sth. will already have happened
He won't have been Will he have been
before a certain time in the He'll have been
Future Will + Have + working. working?
future working.
Perfect Been + Infinitive
Progressive + Ing I won't have been Will I have been
emphasis: length of time of an I'll have been going.
going. going?
action
He'll have been going.
He won't have been Will he have been
going. going?
I would work. I wouldn't work. Would I work?
sth. that might have happened in He would have been He wouldn't have been Would he have been
Conditional the past Would + Have + working. working. working?
Perfect Been + Infinitive
Progressive emphasis: length of time of an + Ing I would have been I wouldn't have been Would I have been
action going. going. going?
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