12 Tenses in English Grammar
Simple Present Tense talks about daily habits, routines, facts, and things that are generally true.
Present Continuous Tense describes actions taking place right now or around the present time.
Present Perfect Tense connects past actions with the present and highlights their present result or importance.
Present Perfect Continuous Tense shows that an action started in the past and has continued up to the present.
Simple Past Tense tells about actions, events, or situations that happened and ended in the past.
Past Continuous Tense describes an action that was going on at a particular moment in the past.
Past Perfect Tense explains that one past action had finished before another past action occurred.
Past Perfect Continuous Tense emphasizes how long an action had been continuing before a certain time or event in the past.
Simple Future Tense expresses future plans, predictions, promises, and actions that will happen later.
Future Continuous Tense describes an action that will be in progress at a specific time in the future.
Future Perfect Tense indicates that an action will finish before a certain future time or event.
Future Perfect Continuous Tense highlights the duration of an action that will continue up to a particular point in the future.