Present Tense

Format: Subject+Present Verb Usage: Routine & Habits Universal Facts State of being

Past Tense
Format: Subject+Past Verb Usage: A finished action with the specific time frame Example: Jack worked last night John met Jack last evening Question: What you did?

Future Tense
Format: Subject+Will+Present Verb Usage: A future action with a specific future time Example: Jack will work tomorrow I will finish this task by 6 Question: What will you do?

Simple

Example: Jack goes to church every Sunday Water boils at 100 degree Celsius John owns a car Question: What you do regularly? Format: Subject+Verb+ING Usage: Two continuous actions Action thats continuing into the present

Format: Subject+Was+Verb+ING Usage: Two continuous actions A temporary action Past continued action with the specific time frame Example: Rita was singing and Ram was listening When I saw her, she was working on the system John was working last night Question: What were you doing?

Format: Subject+Will+Be+Verb+ING Usage: Future continued action with the future time frame Action to be continued in the future before another future action Example: I will be working this Sunday Sandra will be thinking about you, by the time you reach call him Question: What will you be doing?

Continuous

Example: Rita is singing and Ram is listening John is working on ABC project Question: What are you doing?

Format: Subject+Have/Has+Past Participle Usage: Recently finished activity Action that still impacts the present Experiences Example: John has just arrived home

Format: Subject+Had+Past Participle Usage: A finished action with a past time An action that doesnt impact the present A finished action with a simple past action Example:

Format: Subject+Will+Have+Past Participle Usage: An action intended to finish before another future action An action intended to finish within a stipulated future time

Perfect

Rita has finished her part of the report Jack has worked at IBM

Question: what have you done?

I had tried Salsa when I was Example: young Rita will have mastered her listening skills by the time She had food she graduates out of Dimple had attended a crash knowledge academy course before I joined IBM Jack would have become the head of operations by Question: What had you done? the time he completes 5 years in IBM Question: What you will have done? Format: Subject+Will+Have+Been+Verb+IN G Usage: An action that will go for some time in the future with the future time/action and the duration of the action Example: Tom will have been working as a freelancer for more than 2 years when he finally completes his graduation Jim will be tired when we gets home because he will have been exercising for over an hour Question: What you will have been doing?

Format: Subject+Have+Been+Verb+ING Usage: An action that has started in the past and continue up to present with the duration of the action

Format: Subject+Had+Been+Verb+ING Usage: An action that went on for sometime in the past with past time/action and the duration of the action Example: Ram had been talking to Jack for over an hour before Sandra arrived James had been teaching at a university for a year before he left India Question: What had you been doing?

Perfect Continuous

Example: Sandra has been talking since morning I have been working in IBM for 5 years Question: What have you been doing?