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
I will have been working here for ten years next week.
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