English Tenses

English Tenses

1. Tenses

   • Past
     • Typical simple
       • Completed actions in the past
       • Habits in the past
       • Duration in the past
       • Series of completed actions in the past
     • Process (continuous=progress)
       • When (after both short and long actions)
       • While (after long actions)
     • Perfect (result/experienced)
       • A completed actions before a different past actions
       • A period of time before an event in the past
       • Reported speech
       • Third conditional
     • Perfect continuous
       • Duration before something in the past
       • Course of something in the past
       • Third conditional
       • Reported speech
     • Past habbits that happened over a period of time
       • would
       • used to
   • Present
     • Process (continuous)
       • Happening now
       • Temporary actions
       • Fixed plans
       • Longer actions in progress now
       • Trends
     • Simple typical
       • Famous people`s thouhts
       • Natural facts
       • Headlines
       • Subtopic
       • Habits
       • True in the present
       • Timetable/schedule
     • Perfect (result/experienced)
       • Duration from the past until mow
       • Event in the past at unspecified time
       • Repeated events in the past until now
       • Change over time
       • Incomplete actions that is expected to happen
     • Perfect continuous
       • Duration from the past until now
       • Actions happening recently (lately)
       • Actions that recently stopped
       • Temporary actions
   • Future
     • Simple
       • Will be
         • as promises
         • as a suggestion
         • as an assumption
         • as a decision on the spot
         • As everyday habits
         • Future habits
         • Predictions
         • Willingness
         • Future facts
     • Plans
       • 50%
         • To be going to
       • 100% (an appointment/ ticket/ daily planner)
         • Present process (to be doing)
     • Process (continuous=progressive)
       • Typical activity in the future
       • Long actions in the future
       • A particular point of time when the actions will be happening
       • Parallel actions in the fitire
       • Interrupted actions in the future
       • Atmosphere in the future
       • Emphasis of future plans and intentions
     • Perfect (Result/eperienced)
       • Something very important that will happen
       • something that will happen before/ by certain period of time
       • Something insignificant happen
       • Duration before something in the future
     • Perfect continuous