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    The document provides a quick grammatical reminder about verb tenses in English. It outlines the simple, continuous, perfect simple, and perfect continuous tenses for both the present and past. In the present tense, the simple tense is used for habits and the continuous for ongoing actions. The perfect simple tense indicates result or duration, while the perfect continuous shows an action that started in the past and continues. In the past tense, the simple tense describes finished actions, the continuous interrupted or parallel actions, the perfect simple completed actions before another past event or duration before a past event, and the perfect continuous describes duration between two past actions.

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    The document provides a quick grammatical reminder about verb tenses in English. It outlines the simple, continuous, perfect simple, and perfect continuous tenses for both the present and past. In the present tense, the simple tense is used for habits and the continuous for ongoing actions. The perfect simple tense indicates result or duration, while the perfect continuous shows an action that started in the past and continues. In the past tense, the simple tense describes finished actions, the continuous interrupted or parallel actions, the perfect simple completed actions before another past event or duration before a past event, and the perfect continuous describes duration between two past actions.

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    Anglais (Tenses & Linking Words and Phrases)

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    Joseph King
    The document provides a quick grammatical reminder about verb tenses in English. It outlines the simple, continuous, perfect simple, and perfect continuous tenses for both the present and past. In the present tense, the simple tense is used for habits and the continuous for ongoing actions. The perfect simple tense indicates result or duration, while the perfect continuous shows an action that started in the past and continues. In the past tense, the simple tense describes finished actions, the continuous interrupted or parallel actions, the perfect simple completed actions before another past event or duration before a past event, and the perfect continuous describes duration between two past actions.

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    Quick grammatical reminder : Tenses (1)

    Simple Continuous Perfect simple Perfect continuous


    (progressive) (progressive)
    PRESENT Always; usually;… (habits) Now Result; duration Started in the past
    & still going on;
    TENSES Ex. I’m (I am) reading a Ex. I have seen that movie Lately (recently)…
    Ex. I usually wake up at 6AM book 10 times
    Ex. I have been waiting
    I always drink coffee in the He is listening carefully No one has ever climbed here for an hour
    morning to the teacher that mountain
    I have been feeling
    sick lately
    Quick grammatical reminder : Tenses (2)
    Simple Continuous Perfect simple Perfect continuous
    (progressive) (progressive)
    PAST Finished in the past Interrupted action in the past Completed action Duration between
    / before event in the two actions in the past
    TENSES Ex. In 2016 I went to Spain Parallel actions past
    / Ex. I had been living in
    Last Sunday we ate chicken Ex. I was studying when Duration before event Paris for 5 years when
    someone rang the bell in the past the company went
    (non-continuous verbs) bankrupt
    We were watching TV when
    my mother was cooking Ex. She had never gone The rescue teams had
    to the theatre before been working all night
    last night when they finally found
    a survivor
    We had driven this car
    for 10 years before it
    broke down
    A few linking words & phrases

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