Grammatical tense, a grammatical category expressing the time
when a state or action denoted by a verb occurs
Present tense
Past tense
Future tense
1.Simple Present Tense :
I eat an apple.
He eats an apple.
2. Simple Past Tense :
I ate an apple.
He ate an apple.
3. Simple Future Tense :
I shall eat an apple.
He will eat an apple.
4. Present Continuous Tense :
I am eating an apple.
We are eating apple.
He was eating an apple.
5. Past Continuous Tense :
I was eating an apple.
We were eating apple.
He was eating an apple.
6. Future Continuous Tense :
I shall be eating an apple.
He will be eating an apple.
7. Present perfect tense :
I have eaten an apple.
He has eaten an apple.
8. Past perfect tense :
I had eaten an apple.
He had eaten an apple.
9. Future perfect tense :
I shall have eaten an apple.
He will have eaten an apple.
10. Present Perfect Continuous Tense :
I have been eating an apple.
11. Past Perfect Continuous Tense :
I had been eating an apple.
12. Future Perfect Continuous Tense :
I shall have been eating an apple.
Tense Example table.
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Present
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Past
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Future
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Future-in-the-past
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Aspects
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Simple
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go(es)
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went
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will go
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would go
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Continuous
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am/is/are going
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was/were going
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will be going
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would be going
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Perfect
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have/has gone
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had gone
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will have gone
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would have gone
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Perfect continuous
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have/has been going
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had been going
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will have been going
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would have been going
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