the description about Present and Past tenses

1. TTeennsseess
Author: Foreign

2. Present Simple
Form:
(+) Verb+s/es
(-) do/does + not +V
Example:
She works everyday
We often don’t eat
dinner
Use:
•Scientific Fact
•Daily/Habbits
•Statement
Time Signal:
Everyday, Often,
Sometimes, etc.

3. Present Continuous
Use:
•At the time of
speaking
•Happening now
Time signal:
Now, At the moment,
Look!, etc
Form:
(+) to be + V+ing
(-) to be+not + V+ing
Example:
I’m doing my
homework now
Ine isn’t watching
the show

4. Present Perfect
Use:
•Has happened in the
past and has
connection to the
present
Time Signal:
Just, yet, never,
already, since, etc
Form:
(+) Has/Have + Past Participle
(-) Has/Have+not + Past Participle
Example:
Foreign has breathed
since 1999
I haven’t gone yet

5. Present Perfect Progressive
Use:
•Action begin in the
past and has just
stopped
•How long the action
has been happening
Time Signal:
All day, for, etc
Form:
(+) Have/Has + been + V+ing
(-) Have/Has+not + been + V+ing
Example:
Jee has been cooking
for 2 hours
We haven’t been
chating all day

6. Past simple
Use:
•Action took place in
the past
•No connection to the
present
Time Signal:
Yesterday, Last …,
… ago
Form:
(+) V2
(-) Didn’t+ V
Example:
•I made this cake
yesterday
•Last year, he didn’t
come to my party

7. Past Progressive
Use:
•An action happened
in the middle of
another action
Time Signal:
While
Form:
(+) was/were + V+ing
(-) was/were+not + V+ing
Example:
•We were working
•Jane wasn’t doing
her homework

8. Past Perfect
Use:
•Relating two events
which happened in
the past
Time Signal:
Already, just, never
Form:
(+) Had + Past participle
(-) Hadn’t + Past participle
Example:
•I had already done it
•She hadn’t broken
such a thing like that

9. Past Perfect Progressive
Use:
•How long something
had been happening
before something
else happen
Time Signal:
How long, since, for
Form:
(+) Had+been + V+ing
(-) Hadn’t+been + V+ing
Example:
•Sally had been
dancing for 3 hours
•They hadn’t been
producing since 2013

10. Past Perfect Progressive
Use:
•How long something
had been happening
before something
else happen
Time Signal:
How long, since, for
Form:
(+) Had+been + V+ing
(-) Hadn’t+been + V+ing
Example:
•Sally had been
dancing for 3 hours
•They hadn’t been
producing since 2013