English Tenses: A Comprehensive Guide for Students
This guide provides a detailed overview of English tenses, including their usage, formation, and signal words. It covers simple and progressive forms of present, past, and future tenses, as well as perfect and conditional forms.
- Simple Present: Used for regular actions and general truths
- Simple Past: Describes completed actions in the past
- Present Perfect: Expresses past actions with present relevance
- Past Perfect: Indicates actions completed before another past event
- Present Progressive: Describes ongoing actions in the present
- Past Progressive: Expresses ongoing actions in the past
- Present Perfect Progressive: Shows actions that started in the past and continue to the present
- Past Perfect Progressive: Describes ongoing actions in the "past of the past"
- Future Tenses: Include will-future, going-to future, and Future II
- Conditional Forms: Express hypothetical situations and their consequences