The document describes the different tenses in English including: present simple, past simple, future simple, present continuous, past continuous, future continuous, present perfect, past perfect, future perfect, present perfect continuous, past perfect continuous, and future perfect continuous. For each tense, examples are provided to illustrate its usage. The tenses are used to talk about actions or events in the present, past, or future, and whether they are ongoing, completed or planned to happen.

1. Present simple tense

2. Present simpleA verb in simple action. Describes the action in a general sense. Something you do every day.

3. Present simpleI cook my breakfast every morning.

4. I swim at the swimming pool.

5. I read books at the library.

6. I walk through the park on my way to school.

7. I wash my face with water and soap.Past simple tensePresent

8. Past simple tenseAn action that is in the past and is complete. A simple general action. The verb is in the past tense.

9. Past simpleI cooked my breakfast every morning.

10. I swam at the swimming pool.

11. I read books at the library.

12. I walked through the park on my way to school.

13. I washed my face with water and soap.Future simple tensepresent

14. Future SimpleAn action that is going to happen in the future. Uses the verb “will” or “ is going” forms.

15. Future simpleI will cook my breakfast every morning.

16. I am going to read books at the library.

17. I will walk through the park on my way to school.

18. I will wash my face with water and soap. Present Continuous tensepast

19. Present Continuous tenseAction is in progress and the verb has an ‘ing” form.

20. Present Continuous tenseI am cooking my breakfast.

21. I am swimming at the swimming pool.

22. I am reading books at the library.

23. I am walking through the park on my way to school.

24. I am washing my face with water and soap.Past continuous tensepresentpast

25. Past continuous tenseThe action is completed but we are describing the process of the completed action. This form uses the past tense of am “ was” or “were’ and “ ing” form of verb.

26. Past Continuous TenseI was cooking my breakfast.

27. I was swimming at the swimming pool.

28. I was reading books at the library.

29. I was walking through the park on my way to school.Future Continuous Tensepresentpast

30. Future Continuous tenseAn action that is in the future and I am describing the process of it… so the action covers a period of time not just one point in time. This tense uses “ will be” or “ ing” form of verb.

31. Future continuous tenseI will be cooking my breakfast tomorrow.

32. I will be swimming at the swimming pool next week.

33. I will be reading books at the library.Present perfectpastpresent

34. Present perfectAn action on going as I speak, partly completed in the past and don’t know if it will continue into the future. This tense uses “have “ plus the past tense of the verb.

35. Present PerfectI have cooked my breakfast every day this week.

36. I have swam at the swimming pool three times this week.