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They ALL follow the same pattern.

Just change the auxiliary verb 'to be' or 'to have'

1. Simple: Use verb in its base form e.g. I walk, He walks, She does (adding an -s or -es with he/she/it)

2. Continuous: use to be + ing

3. Perfect: use to have + Past participle

4. Perfect Continuous: use both have + be + ing

a) Past b) Present c) Future

1) Simple: I did 1) Simple: I do 1) Simple: I will do


2) Continuous: I was doing 2) Continuous: I am doing 2) Continuous: I will be doing
3) Perfect: I had done 3) Perfect: I have done 3) Perfect: I will have done
4) Perfect continuous: 4) Perfect Continuous: 4) Perfect Continuous:
I had been doing I have been doing I will have been doing

Past: Present Future


to be to be
Will, shall, going to..... be or have
I/He/She/It = was I am
You,You [plural], we, they = were You, we, you [plural], they = are
He/She/It = is
to have → had....all
to have: only he/she/it = has

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