Verb Tenses

Verb Tenses

Verbs come in three tenses: past, present, future and these tenses also divide in simple, continuous, perfect or perfect continuous. 

The past is used to describe things that have already happened (e.g. earlier in the day, yesterday, last week, three years ago). Simple past refers to things that have already happened, and are finished doing their thing. Past continuous is used when one action is happening at the time of another particular time or one action is happening at the same time as another. Past perfect tense is for talking about something that happened before something else and Past perfect continuous is used when one activity in the past was happening before or after another activity had taken place.

Likewise, The present tense is used to describe things that are happening right now, or things that are continuous. Present simple (or Simple present) is used to describe something that happens regularly. Present continuous (also called Present progressive) is used to indicate that an action or condition is happening now and may continue into the near future. The present perfect is used when an action began in the past yet is still relevant and "repeatable". The present perfect continuous is used with actions that began in the past and are still continuing.

The future tense describes things that have yet to happen (e.g. later, tomorrow, next week, next year, three years from now). Simple future is a verb tense that’s used to talk about things that haven’t happened yet. Future continuous relates one action in the future to another specific action or time. Future perfect is a verb tense used for actions that will be completed before some other point in the future. Future perfect continuous is used much like the future perfect, but one of the actions is likely to continue beyond the other and it can also be used when one action will be continuing at a certain time in the future.

Sources: https://www.grammarly.com/handbook/grammar/verbs/7/verb-tenses/

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