WWW - Englisch-Hilfen - de en Grammar Tenses Table
WWW - Englisch-Hilfen - de en Grammar Tenses Table
WWW - Englisch-Hilfen - de en Grammar Tenses Table
Use
Form
Examples affirmative
Examples negative
Examples interrogative
something happens repeatedly sometimes how often something happens always one action follows another Simple Present often things in general usually seldom never first ... then
now
I work. Infinitive he/she/it + -s with the following verbs (to love, to hate, to think, etc.) future meaning: timetables, programmes
I'm working.
Present Progressive
something is happening at the same time of speaking or around it future meaning: when you have already decided and arranged to do it (a fixed plan, date) to be (am/are/is) + Infinitive + ing
Am I working?
Simple Past
action took place in the past, mostly connected with an expression of time (no connection to the present)
just yet never ever Simple Present Perfect already so far, up to now, since for recently all day the whole day Present Perfect Progressive how long since for action began in the past and has just stopped how long the action has been happening emphasis: length of time of an action have/has + been + Infinitive + -ing I have been working. He has been working. I have been going. He has been going. I haven't been working. He hasn't been working. Have I been working? Has he been working? I have worked. He has worked. I have gone. He has gone. I haven't worked. He hasnt worked. I haven't gone. He hasnt gone. Have I worked? Has he worked? Have I gone? Has he gone?
you say that sth. has happened or is finished in the past and it has a connection to the present action started in the past and continues up to the present
have/has + past participle* *(infinitive + -ed) or (3rd column of table of irregular verbs)
I haven't been going. Have I been going? He hasn't been going. Has he been going?
mostly when two actions in a story had + past are related to each other: the participle* action which had already happened is put into past perfect, the other *(infinitive + -ed) or action into simple past (3rd column of table of irregular verbs) the past of the Present Perfect
going to - future
Future Progressive
He won't be working. Will he be working? I won't be going. He won't be going. Will I be going? Will he be going?
I won't have worked. Will I have worked? He won't have worked. I won't have gone. He won't have gone. I won't have been working. He won't have been working. I won't have been going. He won't have been going. I wouldn't work. He wouldn't work. Will he have worked? Will I have gone? Will he have gone? Will I have been working? Will he have been working? Will I have been working? Will he have been working? Would I work? Would he work?
I wouldn't have been Would I have been working. working? He wouldn't have been going. Would he have been working?
I wouldn't have been Would I have been going. going? He wouldn't have been going. Would he have been going?
We sometimes use Continuous instead of Progressive. Some signal words can be found in more tenses. We did not list signal words in the future . Always remember what action is described.