PRESENT TENSE SIMPLE

Affirmative: S + V (s/es for IIIrd person sg):

He goes to school everyday.
She drinks milk everyday.
Interrogative: Do/Does + S +V
Do I go to school everyday?
Does she go to school everyday?
Negative: S + Do/Does + Not + V
I do not go to school everyday.
He doesn’t read this novel everyday.
- Acţiune generală, repetabilă: I read daily.
- Adevăruri general valabile: The Earth spins round.
- Acţiuni viitoare planificate în prezent ca urmare a unui program official
PRESENT TENSE CONTINUOUS
Affirmative: S + Be (present) + V ing: I am eating now.
Interrogative: Be (present) + S + V ing: Am I eating now?
Negative: S + Be (present) + Not + V ing: I am not eating now
- Acţiune care se petrece în momentul vorbirii: I am reading.
- Acţiune temporară: This week, I am doing the homework, you are doing the cleaning and he is
going shopping.
- Acţiune viitoare planificată în present (neoficial): We are spending the week end in the country.
PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE
Affirmative: S + Have/Has (IIIrdperson sg) + V3
I have met Mr. Brown.
She has met Mrs. Brown.
Interrogative: Have/Has + S + V3
Have you met my girlfriend?
Has he met his cousin?
Negative: S + Have/Has + Not +V3
I haven’t read his last novel.
She hasn’t left already.
- Acţiune începută în trecut,terminată în trecut, (neprecizat timpul): I have eaten. (am mâncat)
- Acţiune terminată în perioada de timp neterminată : I have already read the newspaper today.
- Acţiune începută în trecut care se continuă şi în prezent: I have met her.
PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS
Affirmative: S + Have/Has + Been + Ving
You have been waiting here for two hours.
She has been waiting here for two hours.
Interrogative: Have you been waiting here for two hours?
Negative: S + Have/Has + not + Been + Ving
You have not been waiting here for two hours.
- Acţiune începută în trecut care se continuă şi în prezent:
DIFERENŢA DINTRE PRESENT CONTINUOUS ŞI PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS:
1. Plouă= It is raining
2. Plouă de mult / de…= It has been rainig for…
PAST TENSE SIMPLE
Affirmative: S + V2
You went to your friend yesterday.
Interrogative: Did + S + V
Did you go to work yesterday?
Negative: S + Did + Not + V
They didn’t go to work yesterday?

PAST TENSE CONTINUOUS (imperfect)

Affirmative: S + Be (past) + V ing
I was watching TV when she came.
Interrogative: Be (past) + S + V ing
Were you reading when I entered the room?
Negative: S + Be (past) + Not + V ing
He wasn’t eating when she phoned.
Acţiune trecută terminată în moment precizat: (ago, last, yesterday, in 2004): I met her in 1981.
Acţiune trecută în desfăşurare în prezent: When you entered my room, I was watching TV.

PAST PERFECT SIMPLE

(m.m.c.p.)
Affirmative: S + Had + V3
They had watched TV for half an hour.
Interrogative: Had + S + V3
Had they watched TV for half an hour?
Negative: S + Had + Not + V3
They hadn’t watched TV for half an hour.
Acţiune trecută terminată înaintea altei acţiuni trecute:ex: I had already eaten for long when you
came.

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

Affirmative: S + Had + Been + V ing
She had been living in that house since 1993.
Interrogative: Had + S + Been + V ing
Had she been living in that house since 1993?
Negative: S + Had + Not + Been + V ing
She had not been living in that house since 1993.
Acţiune trecută începută înaintea altei acţiuni trecute şi continuându-se şi în momentul începerii
celei de-a doua:
I had been watching TV for 2 hours when you came.
FUTURE TENSE SIMPLE
Affirmative: S + Will/Shall + V
They will go to the seaside tomorrow.
Interrogative: Will/Shall + S + V
Shall we go to the mountains next week?
Negative: S + Will/Shall + Not + V
They will not read this novel tomorrow.

FUTURE CONTINUOUS
Affirmative: S + Will/Shall + Be + V ing
They will be going to the mountains.
Interrogative: Will/Shall + S + Be + V ing
Shall we be reading this novel tomorrow?
Negative: S + Will/Shall + Not + Be + V ing
You will not be reading this poem.

FUTURE PERFECT SIMPLE

Affirmative: S + shall/will + have + V3
They will have gone by now.
Interrogative: Shall/will + S + have + V3
Will you have gone by now?
Negative: S + shall/will+ Not +have + V3
They will not have gone by now.

FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS

Affirmative: S + shall/will + have been + Ving
They will have been building that house for 2 years next Christmas.
Interrogative shall/will + S + have been + Ving
Will they have been building that house for 2 years next Christmas?
Negative: S + shall/will + not + have been + V-ing
They will have been building that house for 2 years next Christmas.
Exprimă faptul că o acţiune se va afla înca în desfăşurare la un anumit moment în viitor.