Simple Continuous Perfect Perfect Continuous

V (s/es) am, is, are +V-ing have/has +V3(ed) have/has been+V-ing

P 1) Regular/ 1) action happening at 1) action that happened 1) long-time action
R repeated/ the moment of in the past but has that started in the past
permanent speech/around this results in present and a) has just
E
action. moment 2) experience finished or b) is still
S 2) fact 2) temporary action 3) recent action in progress
E 3) future action 3) arrangement for 2) action repeated
N (timetable) future just/ already/yet over a period of time
T ever/never 3) focus on duration
usually/generally Now, at present, at the lately/recently
always/never moment, this week; this this week / today for/since
often/seldom/rarely month; after Look! by now/so far/this is the how long
sometimes/hardly ever Listen! 1/2/3rd time… all morning
for / since (with state
verbs)
V-ed was/were + V-ing had + V3/(ed) had been +Ving
1) finished action in 1) unfinished 1) action finished 1) long-time action
P the past action/process in the before another that finished
A 2) series of actions in past action in the past before
the past 2) interrupted action 2) action finished 2) another action in
S
3) 2 parallel actions in before definite time the past/before
T yesterday, last week, the past in the past definite time in
3 days ago, in 1998 the past
when at 5 yesterday, from 5 by 5 o'clock yesterday,
to 6 yesterday, before he came, by the for 2 hours, when
when we came, while end of the last year smth happened; by
that time