E8

Present Tenses in English
Examples
Simple present tense
They walk home.
Present continuous tense
They are walking home.
Past Tenses in English

Simple past tense
Peter lived in China in 1965.
Past continuous tense
I was reading when she arrived.
Perfect Tenses in English
Present perfect tense
I have lived here since 1987.
Present perfect continuous
I have been living here for years.
Past perfect
We had been to see her several times before she visited us.
Past perfect continuous
He had been watching her for some time when she turned and smiled.
Future perfect
We will have arrived in the States by the time you get this letter.
Future perfect continuous
By the end of your course, you will have been studying for five years.
Future Tenses in English

Simple future tense
They will go to Italy next week.
Future continuous tense
I will be travelling by train.
Conditional Tenses in English

Zero conditional
If ice gets hot it melts.
Type 1 conditional
If he is late I will be angry.
Type 2 conditional
If he was in Australia he would be getting up now.
Type 3 conditional
She would have visited me if she had had time.
Mixed conditional
I would be playing tennis if I hadn t broken my arm.
The -ing forms in English

Gerund
I like swimming.
Present participle
She goes running every morning.
Infinitives