Tenses (6-33)
Present simple: I do
- Facts, things that always happen, routines, habits
- Informal spoken introductions, with you
- After time expressions as after, before, immediately, the moment, until, when …
- For verbs reporting news: gather, hear, see, tell, say, understand …
Present continuous: I am doing
- Actions happening at the moment of speaking, and not finished
- Actions happening generally around the time of speaking, rather than exactly at the
same time
- Verbs that describe activities which continue for some time, eg play, rain, read, work
- Verbs that describe a changing situation eg change, grow, increase …
- Adverbs such as continually, forever, constantly, always …
- Fixed arrangements
Present perfect: I have done
- To refer to events connected to the present, without a definite past time, often with
just
- …
Present perfect continuous: I have been doing
- For recent continuing activities, continuing up to the present
- To explain a present situation
- With how long questions
- With mean, think, consider
- With time words lately, recently, all (day), every (morning), for since.
Past simple: I did
- Finished events in the past which have a definite time
- Habits and routines usually with a time expression
Past continuous: I was doing
- To describe a continuing unfinished action in the past
- Activities as background description
- Two continuing events happening at the same time
- Adverbs such as continually, forever, constantly, always …
Past perfect: I had done
- After verbs as realize, remember, know …
Past perfect continuous: I had been doing
Future simple: I will do
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, Future continuous: I will be doing
- an event or a state at a future point
- events that have already been arranged for a future date
- very formal requests
Future perfect: I will have done
Future perfect continuous: I will have been doing
Passive (34-39)
Be + past participle
Present simple passive (are)
- The machines are controlled.
Present continuous passive (is being)
- The crime is being investigated
Present perfect passive (have been)
- A thousand new books have been published
Past simple passive (was)
- The new school was opened
Past continuous passive (was being)
- The man died while he was being taken
Will passive (will be)
- The building will be completed
Hearsay reporting (40-45)
Introduced by a passive form of the report, either in present, simple or past simple form
with a to-infinitive.
Fox example: People know some directors have been thinking on these lines for some time.
Some directors are known to have been thinking on these lines for some time.
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