Learning the 12 English tenses. Verbs come in three tenses: past, present, and future. The past is used to describe things that have already happened (e.g., earlier in the day, yesterday, last week, three years ago). The present tense is used to describe things that are happening right now, or things that are continuous. Present Perfect Continuous: Past Perfect Conti... Present Continuous: Past Continuous Simple Present: Simple Past Present Perfect: Past Perfect.....

1. Don’t be tense, revise tenses!
The 12 basic tenses of the English language are shown below, with a simple example for each, for a
quick reference:
• Present Simple
I walk
• Present Continuous
I am walking
• Present Perfect
I have walked
• Present Perfect Continuous
I have been walking
• Past Simple
I walked
• Past Continuous
I was walking
• Past Perfect
I had walked
• Past Perfect Continuous
I had been walking
• Future Simple
I will walk
• Future Continuous
I will be walking
• Future Perfect
I will have walked
• Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been walking
Put in a different way, they will look like this:
• Present Simple
I walk
• Past Simple
I walked
• Future Simple
I will walk

2. • Present Continuous
I am walking
• Past Continuous
I was walking
• Future Continuous
I will be walking
• Present Perfect
I have walked
• Past Perfect
I had walked
• Future Perfect
I will have walked
• Present Perfect Continuous
I have been walking
• Past Perfect Continuous
I had been walking
• Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been walking