VERB TENSES
verbal tenses: Verb Tense tells the time when the action or condition of the verb occurs.
Verbs come in three tenses: past, present, and future.
Simple Tenses
Simple tenses usually refer to a single action. In general, simple tenses express facts and situations that existed in the past, exist in the present, or will exist in the future.
Simple present: I drive home every day.
Simple past: I drove home yesterday.
Simple future: I will drive home later.
Perfect Tenses
Progressive (Continuous) Tenses
The progressive tenses are to talk about unfinished events. Progressive tenses are also called continuous tenses.
Past progressive: I was driving when you called.
Present progressive: I am driving now.
Future progressive: I will be driving when you call.
Perfect tenses express the idea that one event happens before another event.
Perfect tense is a verb form used to talk about what has or hasn't happened today, this week, this year, or in our lives up to now.
Present perfect: I have driven that road.
Past perfect: I had already driven that road in the past.
Future perfect: I will have driven 200 miles by tomorrow.
Perfect Progressive Tenses
Progressive times express the duration of actions.
Present perfect progressive: I have been driving since this morning.
Past perfect progressive: I had been driving for three hours before I stopped to get gas.
Future perfect progressive: I will have been driving for five hours by the time I arrive.
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