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Past, Present, and Future Tenses - Coggle Diagram

- - - - We use the internet to stay in touch with friends
    - - After dinner every night, Elena gets out her laptop
    - - Elena logs onto the Internet, reads her email, and starts responding
  - - - At the moment, she's laughing
    - - He's spending alot of time on the Internet these days
  - - - Mary has worked at her company for six years
    - - Mary has been working at her company since 2011
  - - - She always listens carefully (NOT careful)
    - - Computers perform tasks quickly
    - - Right now, my computer is performing well.
  - - - I don't hear well (NOT good)
    - - Right now, we need to put things in perspective (NOT we're needing to....)
    - - We have a new laptop. We're having trouble with with it.
- - - - Jessica wanted to find the right person to marry.
    - - Hector met his future wife during his senior year in college
  - - - Hector wasn't paying enough attention to me
  - - - Jessica has learned a great deal about Hector's family
    - - Hector and Jessica got married five years ago NOT have gotten
  - - - used to + base verb
        
        habitual past action or state that is no longer true
        
        I used to be quite lonely (I'm not lonely anymore)
        
        generally not used w/ past time expressions
        
        Drop -d in questions and negatives
        
        Didn't you use to date a lot?
      - would + base verb
        
        actions or states that occurred regularly during a period in the past
        
        often used w/ past time expressions
        
        When I was single, I would get up early every rmorning (I did it every morning)
  - - - Hector and Jessica had known each other for a year when they got married.
      - Don't use Past Perfect w/ before or after
        
        Hectiro and Jessica left on their honeymoon the day after they got married (NOT had gotten married)
  - - - Jessica had been attending college for 3 years when she and Hector met.
  - - - was/were going to +base verb
        
        Hector and Jessica knew that they were going to get married on July 15, 2015
      - would + base form
        
        They knew where the wedding would take place.
        
        Would has 2 different meanings in past
        
        habitutal past action
        
        When I was single, I would go out every Saturday night with my buddies
        
        future in the past
        
        I didn't realize that would change after I got married
- - - - To say what you think will happen
        
        I think I'll enjoy the trip
      - To express a future action decided on at the moment of speaking
        
        Oh no! I can't go to my dentist appointment this afternoon. I'll call and change it.
  - - - We'll be visiting Florence on our Italy trip.
    - - We're going to be spending time in Rome, too
  - - - We leave on Saturday at 8PM
      - The plane arrives in Rome at 8.30am
  - - - We're traveling to Japan in August (We already have out tickets)
  - - - We'll rent a car when we get to Italy
      - When we're in Hawaii, we're going to surf
  - - - An action or state that will happen before a certain time in the future
        
        By the end of our trip, we'll have seen a lot
        
        Often used w/ by and by the time
        
        By the time we finish our trip, we'll have visited ten countries
    - - an action/state that will be happening before a certain in the future
        
        By June 1st, we'll have been traveling for two weeks