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Understanding English Tenses and Structures

The document discusses English verb tenses including present perfect, present simple, present continuous, past simple, past continuous, and future tenses. It provides the structures and uses of each tense along with examples. Key details include how present perfect is used for completed actions connected to the present, present simple for actions happening now or regularly, present continuous for ongoing actions, past simple for completed actions in the past, past continuous for interrupted past actions, and future tenses like "will" and "going to" for various types of future situations.

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Understanding English Tenses and Structures

The document discusses English verb tenses including present perfect, present simple, present continuous, past simple, past continuous, and future tenses. It provides the structures and uses of each tense along with examples. Key details include how present perfect is used for completed actions connected to the present, present simple for actions happening now or regularly, present continuous for ongoing actions, past simple for completed actions in the past, past continuous for interrupted past actions, and future tenses like "will" and "going to" for various types of future situations.

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She + usually read + the book+in the school

Adverbs::

Project
Structure
Just Recently
we use it: Yet Already
A completed action Never For
connected with the present. Subject + verb + object + complement
Since
An action isn´t finished.
No time marker.
we use it
Present Perfect Present Simple
when an action is
Structure: happening right now
when it happens
regularly

Mixed verbs Adverbs


Always Never
Usually Carely
I haven´t went to my house Adverbs Sometimes
At the moment
Now
Right now Structure:
In this moment Present
Continuous
we use it:
To describe events that are
happening in the present – right
now She is eating my sushi
to talk about a
completed action in Project
a time before now.
To describe a series
of completed actions
in the past
Past Simple
I ate boneless yesterday

At
While
Mixed verbs As
At that time
Always
For hours
Past Continuous

Yesterday Interrupted action in the past


Ago Specific time as an interruption
Last Past habits
When

I was doing my homework at noon


Express future actions
decided at the moment of

-I am going to travel to miami in 2 months


Project speaking.
Express a prediction
based on personal
opinions or experiences.
Express a future fact

Will
Express future plans decided
Prediccions or
before the moment of speaking.
quick decisions
Express a prediction based on
present evidence.
Structure:
Express something that is about Mixed verbs
to happen.

Going to

Tomorrow
Ten days+
Next year

I will make a sandwich for you

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