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Past Present Future

Simple Past Present Future
Continuous Past Continuous Present Future Continuous
Continuous
Perfect Past Perfect Present Perfect Future Perfect

Perfect Continuous Past Perfect Present Perfect Future Perfect

Continuous Continuous Continuous

Past Present Future

Simple She sang a song She sings a song She will sing a
song
Continuous She was singing She is singing She will be singing
Perfect She had sung She has sung She will have sung
Perfect Continuous She had been She has been She will have been
singing singing singing

Clues:
1) All Simple use Verb 1 / Verb 2
2) All Future use will
3) All Continuous use to be
4) All Perfect use had/has/have + Verb 3
5) All Perfect Continuous use had/has/have + been + Verb-ing

Simplifying Tenses
The difference between one activity and two activities:
1) One activity --> "Simple"
2) Two activities :
(a) At the same time --> "Continuous" vs "Simple"
(Here, the longer action is "Continuous") e.g. : I was watching television when she
knocked my door last night.
(b) At sequence --> "Perfect" vs "Simple"
(Here, the longer action is "Perfect")
e.g. :
- I will have finished my report when my boss arrives tomorrow.
- She had studied Japanese language before she went to Tokyo in 2008.
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