The document discusses various tenses in English including: - Present tenses like simple present and present continuous - Past tenses like simple past, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous - Future tenses like future simple, going to future, future continuous, future perfect, and future perfect continuous. For each tense, it provides examples of usage and contexts like facts, habits, plans, interruptions, duration, cause and effect.

1. Tenses

3. S + V.1 ( s,es )
Used with something in a
facts, laws of science
Ex. The sun rises in the east.
Used for habits and regularly
actions.
(use with adverb of frequency)
Ex. She goes to her office
everyday.

4. S + V.1 ( s,es )
Used in plans and
schedule
Ex. My flight leaves
at 1 A.M.
Used in the first
and zero conditions
Ex. If you heat ice,
it melts
Used with stative
verbs
Ex. I can hear your
voice.

5. S+V.to be+V.ing
Used with situation that is
happening in the moment
Ex. I’m presenting in front of
the class.
Definite future plan
We have already made a plan
and sure that the event will
happen in the future
Ex. I’m leaving in 10 minutes.

6. S + has/have + V.3
Use with a situation that happened in the past and continue to
the present.
We use since (for a point of time) and for (for a length of time)
Ex. I have waited for you for five years.

7. S + has/have + V.3
Use with a situations that have
just finished. Use with already,
just, yet.
Ex. I have just finished my
homework.
Use with experience
Ex. Have you ever been to
Bahamas?

8. S + have/has + been + V.ing
Continue situation. Use with a situation that started in the past
continue to the present and might be continue to the future.
Ex. I’ve been waiting for you for 5 years.

10. Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an
action started and finished at a specific time in the
past.
S + V.2 + (O) + (Adverb Of Time)
Ex. I made a cake last week.

11. Use the Past Continuous to indicate that a longer action
in the past was interrupted. The interruption is usually a
shorter action in the Simple Past.
S + Was/Were + V.ing + (O) + (Adverb Of
Time)
Ex. He was riding a bike when I did my
homework.

12. The Past Perfect expresses the idea that
something occurred before another action in
the past
S + had + V.3 + (O) + (Adverb Of Time)
Ex. She had studied at school before she
went to a park.

13. to show that something started in the past and
continued up until another time in the past.
S + had + been + V.ing + (O) + (Adverb Of
Time)
Ex. We had been sleeping for 8 hours.

14. Future Tense

15. future actions happen without the speaker's
intention
Unplanned action
Will :
Future Simple Tense

16. planned actions in the future
You are certain that is going to happen
in the future.
Be going to :

17. Future actions in progress
Guesses about the present or the future
Polite questions about somebody's intention
Future Continuous Tense

18. Future Perfect Tense

19. Duration at a definite moment in the future
Cause of a future situation
Future Perfect Continuous Tense