VERBAL TENSES

Simple Continuous Perfect Simple Perfect Continuous

I baked I was baking I had baked I had been baking
Use: A past action that happened Use: Past action in progress that
Use: Finished, completed actions Use: Past action in progress
before a past action happened before another one
Hints: Yesterday, last week, in
Hints: "Past before past"
2010…
Past
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I bake I am baking I have baked I have been baking

Action in the past that's not
Use: Regular activities, habits, Use: An action in the past that
Use: Current action in progress finished, continues into the
general info… affects the present present
Hints: Never, always, every
Hints: Now, at the moment Hints: Just, already, for, since
Present summer
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I will bake I will be baking I will have baked I will have been baking

Intention, idea, instant decisions, Future action in progress at a Action that will be finished at a Use: Action in progress that will be
promise, open predictions specific time in the future point in the future finished at a point in the future

Future Hints: "Future deadline for actions

Hints: "Future deadline"
in progress"
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