Present Tenses Simple present tense | They walk home. |
Present continuous tense | They are walking home. |
Past Tenses Simple past tense | Mary lived in Afghanistan in 1995. |
Past continuous tense | I was sleeping when Elizabeth arrived. |
Perfect Tenses Present perfect tense | I have lived in Georgia since 1950. |
Present perfect continuous | I have been living here for ten years. |
Past perfect | We had been to visit her several times before she was sick. |
Past perfect continuous | He had been watching her for some time when she turned and smiled. |
Future perfect | We will have arrived in the United States by the time you get this letter. |
Future perfect continuous | By the end of this session, you will have been studying for eight weeks. |
Future Tenses Simple future tense | They will go to Germany next week. |
Future continuous tense | I will be travelling by train. |
Conditional Tenses Zero conditional | If chocolate gets hot it melts. |
Type 1 conditional | If she is late I will be angry. |
Type 2 conditional | If he was in Wisconsin he would be getting cold now. |