12 Types of Tenses With Examples Pdf
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| Tense | Example |
| Simple Present | I play basketball every week. |
| Present Progressive | I’m playing basketball now. |
| Simple Past | I played basketball yesterday. |
| Past Progressive | I was playing basketball the whole evening. |
| Present Perfect | I have just played basketball. |
| Present Perfect Progressive | I have been playing basketball for 3 hours. |
| Past Perfect | I had played basketball before mary came. |
| Past Perfect Progressive | I had been playing basketball when Mary came. |
| Future – will | I will play basketball next week. |
| Future – going to | I’m going to play basketball this afternoon. |
| Future Progressive | I will be playing basketball next Sunday. |
| Future Perfect | I will have played basketball by tomorrow. |
| Tense | Affirmative | Negative | Interrogative |
| Present simple | I have a car. | I don’t have a car. | Do I have a car? |
| Present continuous | You are playing football now. | You are not playing football now. | Are you playing football now? |
| Present perfect | They have been there. | They haven’t been there. | Have they been there? |
| Present perfect cont. | I have been living here. | I haven’t been living here. | Have they been living here? |
| Past simple | I lived in London. | I didn’t live in London. | Did I live in London? |
| Past continuous | I was playing. | I wasn’t playing. | Was I playing? |
| Past perfect | He had worked. | He had not worked. | Had he worked? |
| Past perfect cont. | I had been watching. | I had not been watching. | Had I been watching? |
| Future simple | I will come. | I will not come. | Will I come in? |
| Future continuous | I will be playing basketball. | I won’t be playing basketball. | Will I be playing basketball? |
| Future perfect | He will have finished. | He will not have finished. | Will he have finished? |
| Future perfect cont. | We will have been starting. | We will not have been starting. |
