Tenses in English Grammar

Tenses in English grammar can be categorised as follows:

Present Tenses

• Present Simple Tense
• Present Continuous Tense
• Present Perfect Tense
• Present Perfect Continuous Tense

Difficulties:

• Present Perfect Simple or Continuous?

Past Tenses

• Past Simple Tense
• Past Continuous Tense
• Past Perfect Tense
• Past Perfect Continuous Tense
  
  
• Used to
  used to is not a tense (it's a modal verb). However it's useful to place it here to show you how it can be used to talk about the past

Future Tenses

• Future Simple Tense
• The Future with 'Going To'
• Future Continuous Tense
• Future Perfect Tense
• Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Examples Sentences:

• Future Perfect Continuous Tense Examples
  
  

Take a quiz to test your knowledge of all the tenses: Tenses Quiz

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