12 Egnlish Tenses

发表于 2020-08-01 更新于 2023-04-13 分类于 English 本文字数： 1.4k 阅读时长 ≈ 1 分钟

I decide to learn the 12 basic English tenses. There are some notes bellow.

Summarize

Tense	How and when to use	Example
1. Present Simple	general facts; regular actions; schedules	I work on Mondays. I don't eat lunch at 2 PM.
2. Present Continuous	continuing actions(now); one time actions for the future	I'm swiming this Saturday.
3. Present Perfect	general life experience(or lack thereof)	He has never been to spain
4. Present Perfect Continuous	action that started in the past and continue	I've been studying English for 2 years.
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1.Past Simple	actions that started and finished in the past	I worked all night. They didn't come.
2. Past Continuous	actions that were continuing in the past	We were listening music.
3. Past Perfect	actions completed/not completed at a nonspecific point in the past	The hadn't departed yet. I had taken my lunch break.
4. Past Perfect Continuous	actions that started the past and continued and finished as well	The had been waiting since 3 PM.
/	/	/
1. Future Simple	actions planed/unplaned for the future	I'll have a glass of wine. He's going to cookdinner.
2. Future Continuous	actions that you think will/won't be continuing in the future	I'm not going to be working at company A.
3. Future Perfect	actions that you think will/won't have begun in the future	I'll have lived in China for 2 years in 2020.
4. Future Perfcet Continuous	actions that you think will/won't have started and will be continung in the future	I won't have been eating meat for 3 months.