A table of verb tenses: present simple and past simple

Tense
Present simple

Use
She walks to work. We leave for the airport at nine.

use
regular event, job, fact timetable

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Tense
Past simple

Use
They walked along the beach. I wanted burger and fries not a cheeseburger and fries!

use
completed past event

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A table of verb tenses: past perfect simple and past perfect continuous
Tense
Past perfect simple

Use
When we got home we realized that the cat had eaten the fish.

use
completed event before a main past event the past of the past

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Tense
Past perfect continuous

Use
He had been working for 20 hours when he collapsed.

use
continuous action before main past reference

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A table of verb tenses: future simple and going to future

Tense
Future simple

Use
Rain will fall in the west. Ill wash them later.

use
prediction promise / instant decision

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Tense
going to future

Use
Shes going to burn it again. Im going to Cornwall for the weekend.

use
obvious future future plan

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A table of verb tenses: Future perfect simple and future perfect continuous
Tense
Future perfect simple

Use
They will have destroyed the rain forests by 2030

use
predicted to have happened by a certain time

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Tense
Future perfect continuous

Use
They will have been talking for ten hours by midnight.

use
Continuous action up to a future time

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A table of verb tenses: present continuous and past continuous

Tense
Present continuous

Use
She is playing well at the moment. We are playing tennis tomorrow.

use
happening now future arrangement

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Tense
Past continuous

Use
I was having a bath when the phone rang.

use
background past event

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