English Tenses

Present Simple: Do you always come here to do your homework?

Present Continuos: I`m not working at the moment. I`m looking for a job.

Present Perfect Simple: I`ve finished. Mary hasn`t eaten yet.

Present Perfect Continuous: Have you been waiting long?

Past Simple: John opened the door, walked in and sat down.

Past Continuous: As she was climbing the tree, she fell and hurt herself.

Past Perfect Simple: It had never rained like this.

Past Perfect Continuous: The man had been selling newspapers for an hour when you came.

Future – will (Simple): They won`t win the game next Saturday.

To be going to (The near future): He`s going to have lunch.

Future Progressive (Continuous): He will be speaking next week.

Future Perfect Simple: She will have finished the essay by Monday.

Future Perfect Continuous: This girls will have been singing for half an hour when her mother comes home.

Future- in- the- Past Simple: She told me she would go there soon.

Future- in- the- Past Continuous: The woman assured us that, in less than half an hour, her baby would be sleeping.

Present Conditional: Mary would buy that book if she found it.

Past Conditional: My friend would have helped us if he had been here.