How to use english tenses

Tense changes are always meaningful, and they always signal a change in the function of the information — so don’t change tense randomly and make sure you remember to change tense when you should.

Table of tenses

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

Graph of tenses

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