Verb Tenses

Verb Tenses

1. SIMPLE PRESENT

   • law of nature or general truth
   • permanent situation or state
   • habitual action or state
   • to quote
   • exclamatory sentenses
   • to narrate a story (more dramatic)

2. PRESENT CONTINUOUS

   • to talk about an action or situation in progress now or around now
   • to talk about changes happening around now

3. PRESENT PERFECT

   • to talk about an which happened at an indefinite time in the past
   • to talk about an action or state which began in the past and continues up to and into present
   • with expresssions "it's the first time", etc.
   • with time expressions when these periods are not finished
   • news

4. PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

   • duration of an activity whih began in the past and continues up to the present
   • activity habitually repeated from a time in the past up to now
   • an action which began in the past and recently stopped or just stopped.