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English tenses (present, past, future)
The verb tenses in English
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List of the English verb tenses
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Signal words for English tenses
Progressive
or
continuous?
Compound tenses
Passive voice
Present tenses
Ways to express the present
Present simple: use
Present simple: formation
Present continuous: use
Present continuous: formation
Comparison present simple vs. present continuous
Present perfect simple: use
Present perfect simple: formation
Present perfect continuous: use
Present perfect continuous: formation
Comparison present perfect simple vs. continuous
Modal verbs in the perfect:
‘must have been’
or
‘could have been’
Questions with
‘have … got’
Questions with
‘do … have’
Questions with
‘can’
Rule for using
‘he, she, it’
List of exercises: present tenses
Past tenses
Ways to express the past
Past simple: use
Past simple: forms (active voice)
Past simple: forms (passive voice)
Past simple: forms of
‘to be’
Past simple: forms of
‘to have’
Past simple: forms of
‘to do’
Past simple: conjugation of modal verbs
Past continuous: use
Past continuous: forms
Past simple vs. past continuous: comparison
Past perfect simple: use
Past perfect simple: forms
Past perfect continuous: use
Past perfect continuous: forms
List of exercises: past tenses
Future tenses
Ways to express the future
Future simple (
will
future)
Forming the future with
‘will’
The planned future
(to be going to)
Forming
‘be going to’
The future with
‘be about to’
The future with
‘to be on the point of’
The future with
‘to be to’
Future continuous
(will + ing)
: use
Future continuous
(will + ing)
: forms
Using the future perfect simple
Forming the future perfect simple
Future perfect continuous: use
Future perfect continuous: forms
List of exercises: future tenses
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