What is Simple, Continuous, Perfect? Affirmative, Negative & Question Transformations

1. Simple/continuous/perfect
Aux V
MOD INF
HAVE PART
BE ING

2. simple
• Present He drives a car.
• Past He drove a car.
• Neg He doesn’t drive a car.
• Neg He didn’t drive a car.
• Question Does he drive a car?
• Question Did he drive a car?

3. continuous
• He is driving a car. present
• He was driving a car. Past
• He will be driving a car. Future
• He has been driving a car. Pres perf
• He had been driving a car past perf
• He might have been driving a car.

4. perfect
• He has driven a car.
• He had driven a car.
• He will have driven a car.
• He should have driven a car.

5. Simple/aux
• S V
• He drives a car.
• He drove a car.
• S Aux+not V
• He doesn’t drive a car.
• He didn’t drive a car.
• Aux S V
• Does he drive a car?
• Did he drive a car?

6. Continuous/neg
• S Aux+not V
• He isn’t driving a car.
• He wasn’t driving a car.
• He won’t be driving a car.
• He hasn’t been driving a car.
• He hadn’t been driving a car.
• He might not have been driving a car.

7. Continuous/Question
• Aux S V
• Is he driving a car?
• Was he driving a car?
• Will he be driving a car?
• Has he been driving a car?
• Had he been driving a car?
• Might he have been driving a car?