TIME EXPRESSIONS AND VERB TENSES

PRESENT PRESENT PAST SIMPLE PAST FUTURE PRESENT PAST PERFECT FUTURE
SIMPLE CONTINUOUS CONTINUOUS PERFECT PERFECT

( PAST)
*Every (day, * Now * Last * While/as * Next *Already(+) *By the time *By the time
morning ..) ( day,month, (simultaneous (day,week,year) *Just * By 6 oclock
* In the * Right now year, week ...) actions ) *yet ( - , ? ) *By The end of .. *By ( 2020 )
morning, *All day *Tomorrow *Ever (?) / never *Before
afternoon.. *At the yesterday *Still * When my mother
*on Sunday Moment *The day after came home, I had *When my
*Adverbs of * Yesterday Yesterday: tomorrow mother comes
*This done my
frequency *At present home, I will
(morning,year..) homework. have been
*The other day * At 6 oclock *In the future *Recently/lately
Always *Still (Will) doing my
*For * preceding
Sometimes *The day before *From 5 to 7 homework for
*Since action:
Often *Today *later an hour.
*Today He wanted to know
Usually * Ago *The whole day
*How long? what she had
Never *Tonight *soon *These 5 years bought
Rarely (expressing * When *all day
before, after
seldom future) (interrupted yesterday * In 3 minutes, 5
Hardly action) days Past p. continuous
Also used with
*Once, twice . for two hours
PRESENT
(a day, week..) before they came
PERFECT
*Timetables home.
CONTINUOUS
(at 3)
Will WILL + HAVE +
-S/ ES BE+ V ing -ED / Irregular WAS/WERE BE GOING TO HAVE/HAS+ HAD + PARTICIPLE PARTICIPLE
DO/DOES - DID + V ing PARTICIPLE