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Tenses Visual Expal

The document discusses various tenses in English including simple present, past, and future tenses. It explains that the simple present tense is used to talk about habits and facts, simple past talks about events in the past, and simple future talks about events that will happen. It also outlines uses for will, going to, present/past/future continuous, present/past perfect, and present perfect continuous tenses.

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Tenses Visual Expal

The document discusses various tenses in English including simple present, past, and future tenses. It explains that the simple present tense is used to talk about habits and facts, simple past talks about events in the past, and simple future talks about events that will happen. It also outlines uses for will, going to, present/past/future continuous, present/past perfect, and present perfect continuous tenses.

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Past Present Future

Simple Present: Use to talk about things


you usually do (habits) and facts.
Simple Past: Use to talk about something that
happened in a specific moment in the past.

Simple future: Use to talk about something that
is still going to happen.
Will: Promises, instant decisions, offers and
predictions not based on facts.
Going to: Plans and predictions based on
something.
Future Continuous: Using the present
progressive to talk about something in the
future saying when its going to happen.
Past Continuous: Use to talk about an action
in progressive in the past.
Present Continuous: Use to talk about an
action in progressive now.
Future Continuous: Use to talk about an action
in progressive in the future, usually saying
when it is going to happen.
Present Perfect: Use to talk about
things that happened but not
saying when, and unfinished
actions with non-Continuous Verbs.
Past Perfect: Use when you are
talking about the past and want to
talk about an earlier event.
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Present Perfect Continuous: Use to
talk about things that have started
in the past and continue in the
present.
Common Tenses


Past
Present
Future
Simple Past: I went to Canada last year. It was great.
Past Continuous: I was studying last morning.
Past Perfect: When I got home, my mother had cooked dinner.
Simple Present: I go to the beach every week.
Present Continuous: Quiet! I am studying for a test now.
Present Perfect: I have watched that movie twice.
Present Perfect Continuous:
I have been playing soccer since 2012.
Future Will: Brazil will win the next World Cup.
Future Going to: Im going to travel to Cuba next year.
Future continuous:
Im having dinner with my mother tomorrow night.

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