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Past
Summary of Tenses
Regular verbs Positive: Katya was playing tennis Positive: I had aready eaten Positive: He had been reading the
Positive: when I arrived to the tennis dinner when you came. book before I came.
He watched the movie. court.
Rule: Add ed = verb Subject + was/were/ verb + ing. Negative sentence: I hadnt
read that book before I saw
Negative:Katya wasnt playing the movies. Negative: He hadnt been reading a
Negative: tennis. Question: How long had he book before I came
He didnt play soccer. Subject + wasnt/werent + verb + studied English?
ing Question: Had you been reading a
Subject + didnt + verb book before he came?
Question: Question: Use: To look back at a past
Did you study English? Why was Katya playing tennis? situation and imagine a Structure: Subject + had + been +
Why did you study English? (why) Was/were+ subject + different result/ To talk about verb + ing
verb+ing? regrets./Talk about something
Irregular verbs in the past that had happened Use: To talk about an action that
Positive: Use: To talk about an action that at an earlier past time. happened before a specific past
I went to the Japanese we were in the middle of doing at time.
food shop. a past time when something else When I arrived at the party,
Use the form in the second happened. Mary had gone.
column of list only for e.g. I was teaching grammar
positive sentences only when Ann arrived. If I had studied harder, I would
I was playing tennis when it have passed.
Negative: started raining.
I didnt go to the Japanese
food shop. Subject + didnt
+ infinitive
Question:
Did you go to the Japanese
food shop?
Why did you go to the
Japanese food shop?
Future
Summary of Tenses
Positive sentence: Positive: Positive: By this time next year Positive: BY the time I finish my
It will rain will + infinitive I will be waiting for him. I will have completed by year degree I will have been studying
in Ireland English for ten years.
Negative: I wont go to Subject + will + be+ verb + ing
school. Negative: By the time next Negative: will not/wont have been
Subject + wont + infinitive Negative: year I wont have completed a studying
Will not/wont year in Ireland.
Question: You will not be studying at home. Question: How long will you have
Will you go to school? Question: Will you have been studying English by the time
When will you go to Question: completed your year in Ireland you finish your degree?
school? Why will you not be studying at by this time next year?
home? Structure: Subject + will have been
Spontaneous decisions Structure: + verb +ing
Something you decide to Use: To talk about an action that Subject + will + have + past
do as you speak e.g. It is we will be doing in the future. participle Use: To talk about a continuous
hot in here, Ill open the action that will be happening in the
window This time next year I will be sitting future up to a future point/time
Prediction on a beach.
I think it will rain tomorrow
Promise/Offering help
I am finding my homework
very difficult. I will/Ill help Use: Future prediction
you. To talk about something that
we think we will have done by
a future time.
Summary of Tenses
Past We went to We were watching We had eaten She had been waiting
school last TV at 8 o'clock before he came.for two hours when he
week. yesterday. arrived.
Prese They usually We are doing a Mary has lived I have been working
nt come to class grammar exercise in Portland for since 7 o'clock this
on time. now. ten years. morning.
Future Tom will visit Jane will be Jack will have They will have been
tomorrow. eating lunch at 1 finished the studying for six hours
o'clock tomorrow. report by 5 by the end of class.
o'clock.
Simple tenses are used to speak about things that happen on a regular basis.
Summary of Tenses
Continuous tenses are used to describe what is happening at a particular moment in time.
Perfect tenses are used to express what has happened up to another moment in time.
Present perfect tenses are used to state how long something has been happening up to a moment in time.