Review: Perfect & Continuous

Tense Use Example

an action/event that happened at

Present Perfect I have visited Miami.
some point in the past

The perfect an action/event that had happened at

tenses Past Perfect I graduated before I
some point before a given point in the
had visited Miami.
past.

an action/event that is going to finish By 2025 I will have

Future perfect
before a given point in the future. bought my own car.

Tense Use Example

an action/event that is in progress I am learning English

Present Continuous
now. now.

The
Continuous an action/event that was in progress at I was watching TV
tenses Past continuous a point in the past. when my mother
called me.

I will be studying
an action/event that will be in progress
Future continuous English tomorrow at
at a point in the future.
this time.

Tense Use Example

I have been working

an action/event that started in the
Present perfect continuous for ICPNA since
The perfect past and is still in progress now.
2015.
Continuous
tenses
I had been feeling
an action/event that was in progress
Past perfect continuous sick before the
before or up to a point in the past.
wedding (June 2020)
 Timelines

Now

Now
graduated visited Miami

Now buy a house 2025

Timelines

Now

mother called Now

Now Tomorrow

3:40 will be studying 3:40

Timelines

2015 Now

The wedding Now