This document provides an overview of English verb tenses and their structures, including: - The present simple, past simple, present continuous, past continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous tenses. - How auxiliary verbs such as "be", "have", and "do" are used in questions and negatives for each tense. - Time expressions that are commonly used with certain tenses, such as "for", "since", "ever", "never", "just", "already", and "yet".

1. Present Simple
Question
Verb be complement ?
Am I
Is He, she, it
Are you, we, they
Auxiliary verb in infinitive complement ?
Do I, you, we, they
Does He, she, it

2. Past Simple
Question
Auxiliary verb in infinitive complement ?
Did I, you, he, she,
it, we, they
Affirmative
Verb in past complement
Negative
auxiliar in verb in complement
negative in infinitve
didn´t

3. Past Continuous
Auxiliary complement ?
Were you, we, they
Was I, He, she, it
Affirmative
you, we, they
Negative
were complement
He, she, it was complement
you, we, they weren’t complement
He, she, it wasn’t complement

4. Present Continuous
Question
Auxiliary verb complement ?
Verb be with -ing
Am I
Is he, she, it
Are we, you, they
Affirmative
I am verb complement
He, she, it is with -ing
We, you, they are
Negative
I am not verb complement
He, she, it isn’t with -ing
We, you, they aren’t

5. Past continuous
Question
Auxiliary verb complement ?
Verb be with -ing
IN PAST
Was I, he, she, it
Were we, you, they
Affirmative
I, he, she, it was verb complement
We, you, they were with -ing
Negative
I, he, she, it wasn’t verb complement
We, you, they weren’t with -ing

6. Present Perfect Simple
Question
Auxiliary ever verb in past complement ?
HAVE participle
Have I you, we, they
Has he, she, it
Affirmative
I, you, we, they have (‘ve) verb in past complement
He, she, it has (‘s) participle
I’ve eaten
You’ve drunk
We’ve talked
They’ve listened
She’s played
He’s been
It’s eaten

7. Present Perfect Simple
Negative
I, you, we, they haven’t verb in past complement
He, she, it hasn’t participle

8. Present Perfect Simple
FOR
Goes with periods of time, like three hours, ten minutes, a long time. It
goes just before the time period.
SINCE
Goes with points in time, like 1990, Christmas, last week. It goes just before
the time period.
EVER
Means “sometime before now”. It is used in questions, e.g. Have you ever /
Haven’t you ever…?, and in negative satatements, e.g. Nobody has ever
travelled there before. It goes between have and the past participle

9. Present Perfect Simple
NEVER
Means “at no time before” and it is used in negative statements, e.g. I’ve
never been to New York before. It goes between have and the past
participle.
JUST
Means “not so long ago”. It comes between have and the past participle,
e.g. They have just gone out.
ALREADY
Shows an action has been completed. It comes between have and the past
participle: I have already heard that song.

10. Present Perfect Simple
YET
Means “up to a specified time” and is used only in the negative and question
forms of the present perfect tense. It is normally placed at the end of a
sentence, e.g. I haven’t been to the supermarket yet.

11. Present Perfect Continuous
Question
Auxiliary BEEN verb in complement ?
HAVE -ing
Have you, we, they
Has he, she, it
Affirmative
I, you, we, they have (‘ve) BEEN verb in complement
He, she, it has (‘s) -ing
I’ve been eating
You’ve been drinking
We’ve been talking
They’ve been listening
She’s been playing
He’s been speaking
It’s been eating

12. I went to the theatre last night. I had bought tickets
months ago because I had read some very good reviews. I
had arranged to meet my friend in the café in front of the
theatre before the show but she didn’t arrive. By the
time I left the ccafé, I had already drunk five coffees and
had been waiting for over an hour. When I walked out the
café, I saw my friend standing on the other side of the
Street. She had already picked up the tickets and was
angry because she had been waiting for a long time. She
hadn’t got my message about meeting in the café

13. Past Perfect Simple
Question
Auxiliary verb in past complement ?
HAD participle
I you, we, they
he, she, it
Affirmative
I, you, we, they had (‘d) verb in past complement
He, she, it participle
I’d eaten
You’d drunk
We’d talked
They’d listened
She had played
He’d been
It had eaten

14. Past Perfect Simple
Negative
I, you, we, they hadn’t verb in past complement
He, she, it participle

15. Past Perfect Continuous
Question
Auxiliary BEEN verb in complement ?
HAD -ing
you, we, they
he, she, it
Affirmative
I, you, we, they had (‘d) BEEN verb in complement
He, she, it -ing
I’d been eating
You had been drinking
We had been talking
They’d been listening
She’d been playing
He had been speaking
It’d been eating

16. Past Perfect Continuous
Negative
I, you, we, they hadn’t been verb in complement
He, she, it -ing

17. Past Perfect continuous
Negative
I, you, we, they haven’t been verb in complement
He, she, it hasn’t -ing
I hadn’t been eating
You hadn’t been drinking
We hadn’t been talking
They hadn’t been playing
She hadn’t been playing
He hadn’t been studying
It hadn’t been running