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‘‘ He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impatience to be
loved or hated again. No, I’m running on too fast: I bestow my own attributes over liberally
on him.” ( Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights)
‘‘ This time I remembered I was lying in the oak closet, and I heard distinctly the
gusty wind; and the driving of the snow;... .( Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights)
‘‘ I joined my wail to theirs, loud and bitter; but Joseph asked what we could be
thinking of to roar in that way over a saint in heaven.’’ ( Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights)
‘‘ He felt embarrassed for Vera, and for Sergeant Meggs, who must
surely be hearing Vera like some nutty Greek chorus in the background.’’ (Stephen King –
The Wheel of Fortune)
‘‘ She told me she had been walking the earth these twenty years:a just punishment
for her mortal transgression, I have no doubt.” ( Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights)
‘‘ Nothing was stirring except a brindled, grey cat, which crept from the ashes and
saluted me with a querulous mew’’ ( Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights)
‘‘ Heathcliff had gone to lose the beast, and shift it to his own stall; he was passing
behind it, when Hindley finished his speech by knocking him under its feet, and without
stopping to examine whether his hopes were fulfilled, ran as fast as he could.’’ ( Emily
Bronte- Wuthering Heights)
‘‘ And you try not to think that you have one son you love very much, or
about how these calls always seem to come at two in the morning, or how all of the sudden
your calves are getting stiff and heavy with tension.’’ (Stephen King – The Wheel of
Fortune)
“The house is a bit big for you now, isn’t it?” He said: “Don’t start on me, for the love of
God. Tess is always nagging me to sell up and move into a flat.” (David Lodge, Paradise
News)
 The Continuous Aspect of the Indicative Tenses Chart

Active Tenses Formation Examples

Present continuous
Present perfect continuous
Past continuous
Past perfect continuous
Future continuous
Future perfect continuous
Future-in-the-Past
Continuous
Future-Perfect-in-the-Past
Continuous
Be Going to + to-Infinitive
am/are/is + present participle
have/has been + present
participle
was/ were + present participle
had been+ present participle
will be + present participle
will have been + present
participle
would be + present participle
would have been + present
participle
Am/are/is/was/were
infinitive
He is working.
He has been working and he is
tired.
He was working when I phoned.
He had been working all day and
he was tired.
He will be working when we
come.
He will have been working for
10 hours when the shop closes.
He would be working when we
arrived.
He would have been working for
10 hours when the shop closed.
+ to You are going to hear me out
whether you like it or not!

The Continuous Infinitive Chart

Mood and Tense Formation Example

Present Continuous Long to be + present participle He is rumoured to be
Infinitive working on a new project.
Perfect Continuous Long to have been + present He is rumoured to have been
Infinitive participle working really hard on that
project.
Present Continuous Short be + present participle I see myself on a tropical
Infinitive island. I must be
daydreaming.
Perfect Continuous Short have been + present I thought I was on a tropical
Infinitive participle island. I must have been
daydreaming.

English Continuous Tenses Chart (The Passive Voice)

Continuous Formation Examples

Tenses
Present continuous am/are/is + being + vb3 A new book is being read by the
 am/are/is +not + being+vb3 pupis now.
Am/are/is + S + being + vb3 You can go! The dogs are not
being fed at the moment.
Are you being told a good joke?
Past continuous was/were + being + vb3 A few people were being arrested
was/were + not + being + vb3 by the police yesterday at five
was/were + S + being + vb3? o’clock.
The bike was not being repaired
when you called me.
Was the car being fixed at this time
last week?
Present Perfect _____________ ________________
Continuous
Past Perfect ____________ _________________
Continuous
Future Continuous ____________ ____________
Future-in-the-Past ______________ __________________
Continuous
Future-Perfect-in- ________________ __________________
the-Past Continuous

Sequence of Tenses and Time Clauses Chart

Tense Main Clause Time Clause

Present Present Simple/Continuous Tense Present Simple/Continuous
Future Future Tense Present Simple/Continuous
Present Perfect Simple/Continuous
Past Future-in-the-Past Tense Past Simple/Continuous
Past Perfect Simple/Continuous

The Continuous Aspect in Unreal Conditional Chart

Future Unreal Conditional + If-clause: were /the Past tense form of the
Continuous verb + present participle
+ time adverbials
Result would be + present participle
Present Unreal Conditional + If-clause were/the Past tense form of the
Continuous verb + present participle
Result would be + present participle
Past Unreal Conditional + If-clause had been + present participle
Continuous
Result would have been + present
participle