A summary of the main English verb tenses in Present and Past, that is: Present Simple, Past Simple, Present Continuous, Past Continuous, Present Perfect Simple, Past Perfect Simple. Besides some examples in affirmative, negative and interrogative forms and most common particles used with each English verb tense.

1. ENGLISH VERB
TENSES
FORMS USES PARTICLES
Present Simple AFF I live here. /She lives here. - Facts (hechos).
- Routines.
- Timetables.
always/usually/often/sometimes/occasionally/rarely/
hardly ever/never
every day-month-week-year
once or twice a day-week-month-year/on+day of the
week/at night/in the morning-afternoon-evening/in the
summer-winter-autumn-spring
NEG I don’t live in NY. / She doesn’t
live in NY.
INT Do you live in London? / Does
she live in London?
Present Continuous AFF I’m working. - An action in progress.
- An intention, a plan (future).
Be careful with STATIVE VERBS!
now/at the moment/right now/today/these days/this
week
soon/later/tomorrow/tonight/next week-month-year
NEG I’m not working.
INT Are you working?
Past Simple AFF I arrived late. - Finished actions in the past.
- Consecutive actions in the
past (una acción tras otra).
yesterday/the day before yesterday/ago/in 2015/the
other day/when/at the age of 16
last week-month-year/in the past/one day/at the
time/then/before
NEG He didn’t arrive early.
INT Did you arrive on time?
Past Continuous AFF We were reading a book. - An action in progress in the
past.
- Two or more simultaneous
actions.
While/at this time yesterday/still/yesterday/the whole
evening/at midnight/
NEG It wasn’t reading a magazine.
INT Are you reading on the
internet?
Present Perfect
Simple
AFF I have done it. - A past action with a result in
the present.
- An action started and hasn’t
finished yet.
- Expressing things you’ve done.
- A finished action in an
unfinished period.
yet/already/still/just/ever/never/recently/lately/several
time/in his life
since + specific time/for + period of time
since then
NEG She hasn’t done it.
INT Have they done it?
Past Perfect Simple AFF They had done it. - An action which had finished
before some other action
happened in the past.
By the time/as soon as/after
NEG He hadn’t shown it.
INT Had you phoned him?