English Tenses Overview

Present Tenses

• Simple Present: Used for habitual actions or general truths; e.g., "I make."
• Present Continuous: Indicates ongoing actions happening right now; e.g., "I am making (Reels)."
• Present Perfect: Expresses actions that occurred at an unspecified time; e.g., "I have made."
• Present Perfect Continuous: Highlights actions that began in the past and continue into the present; e.g., "I have been making."

Past Tenses

• Simple Past: Refers to actions completed in the past at a specific time; e.g., "I made."
• Past Continuous: Describes actions that were ongoing in the past; e.g., "I was making."
• Past Perfect: Indicates actions completed before another point in the past; e.g., "I had made."
• Past Perfect Continuous: Emphasizes the duration of an action that was ongoing before another past event; e.g., "I had been making."

Future Tenses

• Simple Future: Predicts actions that will occur in the future; e.g., "I will make."
• Future Continuous: Describes actions that will be ongoing at a specific time in the future; e.g., "I will be making."
• Future Perfect: Indicates actions that will be completed before a specified time in the future; e.g., "I will have made."
• Future Perfect Continuous: Highlights actions that will have been ongoing for a period of time before a future point; e.g., "I will have been making."