16 Tenses and 16 Example Sentences
| 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. |
| Conditional Simple | I would play basketball. |
| Conditional Progressive | I would be playing basketball. |
| Conditional Perfect | I would have played basketball. |
| Conditional Perfect Progressive | I would have been playing basketball. |
