16 Tenses and 16 Example Sentences

16 Tenses and 16 Example Sentences






TenseExample
Simple PresentI play basketball every week.
Present ProgressiveI’m playing basketball now.
Simple PastI played basketball yesterday.
Past ProgressiveI was playing basketball the whole evening.
Present PerfectI have just played basketball.
Present Perfect ProgressiveI have been playing basketball for 3 hours.
Past PerfectI had played basketball before mary came.
Past Perfect ProgressiveI had been playing basketball when Mary came.
Future – willI will play basketball next week.
Future – going toI’m going to play basketball this afternoon.
Future ProgressiveI will be playing basketball next Sunday.
Future PerfectI will have played basketball by tomorrow.
Conditional SimpleI would play basketball.
Conditional ProgressiveI would be playing basketball.
Conditional PerfectI would have played basketball.
Conditional Perfect ProgressiveI would have been playing basketball.