review of 12 tenses basic recap

1. Verb Tenses and Conjunctions
Mcenroe Ng

2. 12 tenses recap
1) Simple present -
happens regularly or doesn't happen regularly. (habit)
 James plays tennis everyday.
2) simple past tense-
show something that happened in the past and finished in the past at a particular time.
 Jerry played tennis yesterday

3. 12 tenses recap
3) Simple future- we use the word will plus the simple form of the verb.
 James will play badminton next weekend
4) Present progressive- shows what is happening right now. we need two parts of the verb. We
need a be verb and an ing.
 James is running to class
5) past progressive- show an action that was continuing at a certain time in the past.
 James was running to class

4. 12 tenses recap
6) Future progressive- something that will be happening continuously at a time in the future. Use the
word will plus be and the ing.
 James will be walking to class
7) Present perfect - something that happened in the past before now at a non-specific time.
 James has eaten cream puff before.
8) Past perfect - nothing to do with the present. two actions in the past and we want to show that
one of the actions happened before the other action, in the past.
 Alan had not studied before he took the test.

5. 12 tenses recap
9) Future perfect -two actions in the future.
 I will have seen the new movie six times by next week.
10) Present perfect progressive -three parts to the verb. You need to have, have or has, because that
makes it perfect,
 James has been waiting for a long time
11) Past perfect progressive -something was happening in the past and may have been going on
before something else.
 He had been sleeping for ten hours

6. 12 tenses recap
12) Future perfect progressive - continuous action in the future that lasts continuously.
 We will have been studying for a month

7. References
 University of California, Irvine
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