Tenses Table Tenses Usages Keywords Examples shall trade is

[Pages:2]Tenses Table

Tenses

Simple 1 Present

Tense

Present 2 Continuous

Tense

Simple Past 3

Tense

Past 4 Continuous

Tense

Usages

Keywords

Examples

Every morning,

He washes his face

Habit Truth or fact

weekly, seldom, always, often, Sometimes,

every morning. Do you watch TV at night?

monthly, annually... A tiger has stripes.

I am studying now.

A continuous

Look! She is

Now, Look!, at the crying.

action or

moment, at this Mother is cooking

event that is

moment...

at the moment.

still going on

Are they reading

now?

An action

Ali ate lunch just

now.

that takes Last week, last

She played

place in the month, just now, two

basketball when

past

hours ago, in 2001,

Habitual past yesterday...

she was young.

Did you read the

action

book yesterday?

I was doing my

homework at that

A past action

moment.

Wasn't my brother

taking place

At that moment, at sleeping all

at a given

5pm yesterday,

yesterday?

time

(when/while + past My Two or more

father

was

tense/past

jogging when he

past actions

continuous)

saw the accident.

happening at

While the cat was

the same time

sleeping, the dog

was playing the

ball.

I shall trade in my

old computer

Future action Soon, tomorrow,

tomorrow.

Future action next week, the day Joey will attend the

Simple

after tomorrow,

5

in

a

meeting next

Future Tense

later, next year, in

conditional

month.

ten minutes, later

sentence

If you fail your

on...

exams, father will

scold you.

An action

Mary will be

At 9am tomorrow, at

that will be

seeing you at 5pm

Future

this time next week,

taking place

this Monday.

6 Continuous

at 10pm this

at a given

Tense

Sunday...

time in the

future

Past action Since, for, yet, She has just left.

Present 7

Perfect Tense

with the time lately, just, never, Have you eaten

not

already, recently, your breakfast

mentioned before...

already?

An action

The film hadn't

started before I

that was done

entered the cinema

Past Perfect

before

After/before + past

8

hall.

Tense

another past tense, when

The plane had left

action took

when Amy reached

place

airport.

An action

Aunt Annie has

For the last two been crying since

Present

that has not

hours, since 1999, last night.

Perfect

been

9

since 10 o'clock, We have been

Continuous

interrupted

since last night, for learning English

Tense

and is still

hours...

since the age of

going on

three.

 To look back

After the kids came

back from the

at a situation

garden, they felt

in progress

An action

hungry. They had

Past Perfect

Before/after/when + been playing in the

had been

10 Continuous

simple past tense + garden all

happening

Tense

for/all...

afternoon.

before

James was drunk

something

after he had been

else

drinking for all

happened

night.

If the weather is

If-conditional An action

hot, I will wear a

11

Tense

that will

If + present tense cap.

(Likely)

happen

An action

If I were Tom, I

If-conditional

12

Tense

(Unlikely)

that

is

impossible to

happen

(imaginary

If + past tense

would enter the competition. If I were rich, I would study

condition)

overseas.

An action

If-conditional

13

Tense

(Impossible)

that might happen in the past but is impossible

If + past perfect

now

If you had gone with us, you would have seen him. If she had won the competition, she would not have cried.

Simple

Every morning,

The apple is eaten

Present

Habit

weekly, seldom,

14

Tense

Truth or fact always, often,

(Passive

Sometimes,

by Cindy every day. Are the netballs

Form)

monthly, annually... played weekly?

An action

Was the boy

Simple Past

that takes Last week, last scolded by Mr Lim

Tense 15

(Passive

place in the month, just now, two yesterday?

past

hours ago, in 2001, Those books

Form)

Habitual past yesterday...

weren't bought by

action

Zoe last week.

Future action Soon, tomorrow,

Will the party be

Simple

Future action next week, the day organized by Betty

Future Tense

after tomorrow, tomorrow?

16

in

a

(Passive

later, next year, in The injured boy

conditional

Form)

ten minutes, later will be taken to

sentence

on...

hospital soon.

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