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Tenses

June 25th, 2008

Tags: Culture and Society

Types of tenses in English Language:

  • Present Tense
  • Present Continuous Tense
  • Present Perfect Tense – The action started in the past and it continues upto now.
  • Present Perfect Continuous Tense – The action has just stopped or an action continuing up to now
  • Past Tense
  • Past Continuous Tense
  • Past Perfect Tense – The action in the past before another action in the past.
  • Past Perfect Continuous Tense – It expresses longer actions in the past before another action in the past
    E.g. I was very tired because I had been running.
  • Future Tense
  • Future Continuous Tense
  • Future Perfect Tense
    The train will have left when you arrive.  
  • Future Perfect Continuous Tense - about a long action before some point in the future
    will have been working here for ten years next week. 
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