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THE ULTIMATE VERB TENSES MIND MAP - Coggle Diagram
THE ULTIMATE VERB TENSES MIND MAP
Continuous Tenses
The verb in a continuous tenseindicates an ongoing or incomplete action in the past, present and future.
Thiago was speaking cheerfully
Past continuous tense
Zanetti and Vitor are typing very fast
Present continuous tense
The plane will be flying on schedule
Future continuous tense
In the continuous tense, the main verb has an -ing form
SpeakING
FlyING
TypING
A continuous tense have a helping verb before the main verb
Was
Are
Will be
Is, are, am: indicate present
Was, wer: past
Will be: future
Simple Tenses
In simple tenses, the verbs simply indicate anction in the present, past or future.
The simple present tense resembles the base verb, but we add -s, -es, or -ies to a base verb when the subject in the third person singular (he, she, it).
Example:
He plays soccer very well.
She loves chocolate.
They go to school in the afternoon.
I always read the newspaper in the morning.
Indicate:
Habits
Regular Actions
Current situation
General truths or facts
The simple past tense is formed when we add the suffix -ed to base verb.
Example:
The children jumped into the river
The simple past tenseshows an action that happened in the past and is over now
Example:
He worked in Dubai last year
Irregular verbs do not add -ed; they take differents forms
Example:
He run last night
The simple future tense is formed by adding will (or shall) before the base verb
They show an action that will happen sometime in the future
attention: simple present and past tenses do not have helping verbs
Use singular verbs with singular subject
Use plural verbs with plural subjects
Perfect tenses
The present perfect is used to express an action whose emphasis falls on itself, no matter the date on which it happened, no matter when something happened but what happened.
The present perfect can also express an action that started in the past, remains in the present and can continue in the future.
The verb no present perfect is also used when accompanied by the adverbs ever, never, yet, alredy, recently and before.
Present Perfect Continuous
We use the Present Perfect Continuous to talk about something that started in the past and continues in the present. We often use this tense with words like: lately and recently.
I hope you haven’t been waiting for me for a long time.
Past Perfect
We use past perfect to talk about something that happened in the past, before another fact. Words commonly used with past perfect are: just, already, yet, ever and never.
We‘d already eaten when you asked us out to lunch.
Past Perfect Continuous
Past perfect continuous is very similar to past perfect, but it expresses longer actions in the past before another action in the past.
Dave started waiting at 9am. I arrived at 11am. When I arrived, Dave had been waiting for two hours.