TENSES
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Past simple
Present Simple
es 3RD PERSON SINGULAR
I watch TV
He watches TV
present continuos
Subject+verb(ed)
present perfect
Past Simple
subject + verb (ed)
past perfect continuous
s+have/has+past participle
am/is/are + verb +ing
She has lived in that house all her life.
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future simple
will+verb
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past continous
Past continius
You are watching TV.
was or were + verb + ing
had + been + verb ( -ing)
I have seen that movie before.
What are you doing?
when the phone rang, she was writing a letter
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future perfect cont.
We were talking before the exam.
I had been working on this project for three hours.
He watched TV.
Present perfect continuous
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s+have/has+been+ing
will+have+been+Ving
am/is/are + going to + verb
[Present perfect continuous
subject + verb (second column)
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He has been playing in that band for many years.
"to be" (will have been) + the present participle of the main verb (base + ing)
I am annoyed because I have been waiting to get served for ages.
He sent me a letter.
We will see him
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She has been waiting for 2 hours.
this form is used to project ourselves forward in time and to look back.
Will you have been working when I arrive?
USE: something that happened in the past and it's still happening in the present; something that happened recently and has a result in the present; something that happened repeatedly in the past and may continue to happen now and in the future
he is going to make a cake.
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When I come at 6:00, will you have been practicing long?
Use:actions that will continue up until a point in the future
future simple is used to talk about things that havent happened yet
use: for sth that started in the past and continued up until a certain time in the past