Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Usually (90%)
Facts
Normally / Generally(80%)
Actions taking place
Often / Frequently (70%)
one after another
Sometimes (50%)
Action set by a
Occasionally (30%)
timetable or schedule
Seldom (10%)
Hardly ever / Rarely (5%)
Never (5%)
Once, twice (a day,week)
Timetable (at 3…)
Yesterday
Last (day,Friday, week
month, year)
Action in the past The other day
taking place once, The day before
never or several times yesterday
Actions taking place Ago
PAST
SIMPLE
Tomorrow
Decision made for the Next (day, week, year…)
FUTURE
1
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Now
Right now
Action taking place in At the moment
the moment of At this moment
speaking At present
PRESENT
the future
This time on Sunday
Action that is sure to
When I come…
happen in the near
future
2
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Already
Putting emphasis on
Just
the result
Yet / Not yet
Action that is still
Ever (?)/never
going on
So far
Action that stopped
Till now
recently
PRESENT
Up to now
Finished action that
Of late
has an influence on
This (morning, year..)
the present
Recently/lately
Action that has taken
For
place once, never or
Since
several times before
Today
the moment of
How long?
speaking
These 5 years
Sometimes Before
interchangeable with After
PAST
By the time
Action taking place
By (2020)
before a certain time
FUTURE
3
Tenses Chart English
Putting emphasis on
the course or
duration (not the All day
PRESENT
interchangeable with
past perfect simple
Since…
Putting emphasis on
the duration or
course of an action
For …,
in the future
The last couple of hours
Putting emphasis on
All day long
the course of an action