Tense
- Simple Present
- Present Continuous
- Simple Past
- Past Continuous
- Simple Future
- Present Perfect
- Present Perfect Continuous
- Past Perfect
- Future with Going to Boston next week
- Past Perfect Continuous
- Future Continuous
- Future Perfect
Positive
- I play soccer on Mondays
- He's (is) working at the moment
- They aren't (are not) coming this evening
- I was watching TV when you called
- She went to Paris last week
- I'll (will) meet you at the airport tomorrow
- He's (is) going to fly to They're (are) not going to invite the Browns
- I've (have) seen Mick three times this week
- She's (has) been waiting for over three hours
Verb Tense Chart
Negative
- They don't (do not) play tennis
- She'd (had) been waiting for three hours when he finally arrived
- I'll (will) be cooking dinner when you arrive
- We'll (will) have lived here for twenty years by 2005
- He'll (will) have been sleeping for a few hours by the time we arrive
- He wasn't (was not) working when she arrived
- I'd (had) already eaten before they came
- He won't (will not) be able to come
- She hasn't (has not) been to New York
- They haven't (have not) been studying for long
- I hadn't (had not) been sleeping for long when I heard the doorbell ring
Question
- She won't (will not) have finished her homework by the time we arrive
- Does she like U2?
- What are you doing?
- Where did she get that hat?
- What were you doing when I called?
- Where are you going to stay?
- How long have you worked at Smith's?
- How long have you been working on that problem?
- Had you ever seen such a crazy lady before that?
- How long had you been playing tennis when she arrived?
Use
- Habitual activities - States
- Actions happening at the present moment
- Near future intention and scheduling
- Actions happening at a defined moment in the past
- Future intent or planned action
- Decisions made at the moment about the predictions and future promises
- To express an action that was begun in the past and continues into the present, to express an action that happened in the unspecified past, and to express a recent action that has a present effect
- To express the duration of a continuous activity begun in the past and continuing into the present
- To express the duration of a continuous activity begun before another activity in the past
- Future action at a specific moment in the future
- To express an action that happens before another action in the past
- To express what will have happened or how long something will have happened up to a certain point in the future
- To express the duration of an activity up to a point of time in the future
Verb Tenses - Online Exercises
[Verb Tenses - Additional Online Exercises](https://www.english-grammar.at/online exercises/tenses/tenses index.htm)
Verb Tenses - Advanced Online Exercises
Verb Tenses - Upper-Intermediate Online Exercises
[Verb Tenses - Grammar Practice](https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1 grammar.html)
Review
Word Search
Justice, Parliament, Monarch, Codify, Law, Act, Regulation, Bill, Pass, Entail
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- A proposal law before being enacted by Parliament (UK) or Congress (USA) is a/n b) bill
- New consumer protection legislation will come into force a) law
- The police made ten arrests during the demonstration
- Parliament is a legislative body
- The wrongs committed by one individual against another individual's person, property or reputation are called torts
- The Anglo-Saxon system of law is not present in Switzerland
- Private law
The above text provides a clear breakdown of verb tenses in English, including the various positive, negative, and questions forms. It also includes a review section with word search exercise and multiple-choice questions for a thorough understanding and practice of the topic. For further exercises, the text includes links to various online exercises to reinforce learning of English verb tenses.
