Picking the appropriate verb tense and accurately conjugating verbs can be challenging in English; click on a specific tense to learn about its formation and usage, or choose a timeframe for a comprehensive list of tenses and related resources.
| Present tenses in English | Examples |
|---|---|
| Simple present tense | They walk home. |
| Present continuous tense | They are walking home. |
| Past tenses in English | |
| Simple past tense | Peter lived in China in 1965. |
| Past continuous tense | I was reading when she arrived. |
| Perfect tenses in English | |
| Present perfect tense | I have lived here since 1987. |
| Present perfect continuous | I have been living here for years. |
| Past perfect | We had been to see her several times before she visited us. |
| Past perfect continuous | He had been watching her for some time when she turned and smiled. |
| Future perfect | We will have arrived in the States by the time you get this letter. |
| Future perfect continuous | By the end of your course, you will have been studying for five years. |
| Future tenses in English | |
| Simple future tense | They will go to Italy next week. |
| Future continuous tense | I will be travelling by train. |
| Conditional tenses in English | |
| Zero conditional | If ice gets hot it melts. |
| Type 1 conditional | If he is late I will be angry. |
| Type 2 conditional | If he was in Australia he would be getting up now. |
| Type 3 conditional | She would have visited me if she had had time. |
| Mixed conditional | I would be playing tennis if I hadn’t broken my arm. |
| The -ing forms in English | |
| Gerund | I like swimming. |
| Present participle | She goes running every morning. |
| Infinitives | |
| Passive voice |
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