Tenses

Simple
Present
(sekarang
)

Function

Time Expressions

Menyatakan suatu
aktivitas yang
terjadi sekarang.

Always, usually,
never, sometimes,
rarely, often,
regularly,
everyday,
every...., once a
week

Continous

Perfect

Now, at this
moment, at
present, right
now, today, et

Perfect
Continous
Past
(lampau)

Simple
Continuous

Menyatakan suatu
kegiatan yang
terjadi pada masa
lampau

Yesterday, ago,
last....,etc.

Verb

V1

V-ing

V3

V-ing

V1

Do
Does
Am
Is
Are
Have
Has

Have been
Has been

V-ing

Did
Was
Were

V3

Had

Perfect

Use for indicate a habitual action

Use for express general truth
Use for express a future event that is part of a fixed timetable
Ue for introduce a quotation
We use present continuous tense when there is an action going
on at the time of speaking

Present perfect tense is used to indicate activities that

completed in the near past

When the action is began at some time in the past and still
counting, we use present perfect continuous tense

Simple past tense is used to indicate an action that already over

And to indicate the past habits
Use past continuous tense when we want to indicate that a
longer action in the past was interrupted
Past perfect tense can show that something happened before a
specific time in the past
When we want to show that something started in the past and
continued up until another time in the past and the duration
doesnt continue until now, it stops before something in the
past, use past perfect continuous tense.

Perfect
Continuous
V-ing

Future
(yang akan
datang)

Had been

Simple

V1
Aktivitas yang
terjadi pada masa
yang akan datang

Tomorrow,
next...., this
coming...., the day
after tomorrow,

Will

The differences between will a

going to, are;

Continuous

V-ing

Will be

Perfect

V3

Will have

V-ing

Will have
been

Will

Perfect
Continuous

Past
Future
(seharusnya)

Simple
Continuous
Perfect
Perfect
Continuous

Untuk kalimat
conditional
(kalimat
pengandaian) atau
reported speech
(kalimat tidak
langusng)

V1
V-ing
V3

Would
Would be
Would have

V-ing

Would have
been

To express a voluntary
action when the speaker
will do something
voluntarily, we use
will
To express a promise
To express a prediction.
There is no difference in
meaning when we use
will or be going to

Be going to

To express a plan
We use be going to when
make an idea that we inten
do it in the future
To express a prediction
Be going to can express th
of a general prediction abo
future

Past future tense or future in the past has two different forms
English. There are; would and was going to
Would = used to volunteer or promise.
Example: I knew Nad would make dinner (voluntary action)
Was going to = used to plan. Example: I told you, he was go
come to the party (plan)

Both forms can be used to make predictions about the future.