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English Tenses

• Simple Present: Used for habitual actions, facts, and general truths. The form is the base form of the verb for most pronouns (e.g., "I work"). For third-person singular, an "-s" is added (e.g., "He works").

• Present Continuous: Describes actions happening now, or around the time of speaking. The form uses "to be" (am, are, is) + verb + -ing (e.g., "I am working").

• Simple Past: Used for completed actions in the past. Regular verbs form the past tense using "-ed" (e.g., "I worked"). Irregular verbs have specific past forms (e.g., "I went").

• Past Continuous: Describes an action in progress at a specific time in the past. The form uses "was/were" + verb + -ing (e.g., "I was working").

• Present Perfect: Expresses actions that began in the past and continue to the present. The form uses "have/has" + past participle (e.g., "I have worked").

• Present Perfect Continuous: Describes actions that started in the past and continue to the present, emphasizing the duration. The form uses "have/has" + been + verb + -ing (e.g., "I have been working").

• Past Perfect: Used for actions that were completed before another action in the past. The form uses "had" + past participle (e.g., "I had worked").

• Past Perfect Continuous: Describes an action that was in progress before another action in the past, emphasizing duration. The form utilizes "had" + been + verb + -ing (e.g., "I had been working").

• Simple Future: Used for predictions and plans. The form is "will" + base form of the verb (e.g., "I will work").

• Future Continuous: Indicates an action that will be in progress at a specific time in the future. The form utilizes "will" + be + verb + -ing (e.g., "I will be working").

• Future Perfect: Expresses an action that will be completed before a specific time in the future. The form incorporates "will" + have + past participle (e.g., "I will have worked").

• Future Perfect Continuous: Describes an action that will have been in progress before a specific time in the future. The form uses "will" + have + been + verb + -ing (e.g., "I will have been working").

• Conditional Simple: Expresses a possibility or a condition. The form uses "would" + base form of the verb (e.g., "I would work").

• Conditional Continuous: Expresses a hypothetical action, emphasizing duration. The form is "would" + be + verb + -ing (e.g., "I would be working").

• Conditional Perfect: Describes a hypothetical action completed before another. The form uses "would" + have + past participle (e.g., "I would have worked").

• Conditional Perfect Continuous: Expresses a hypothetical action in progress before another. The form uses "would" + have + been + verb + -ing (e.g., "I would have been working").

• Modal Verbs: Used to express necessity, possibility, ability and more. Examples include "can," "should," "must," "may," "would."

• Signal Words: Words that indicate the tense (e.g., "every day," "yesterday," "already").

Irregular Verbs

• The document includes examples of irregular verbs, but a complete list is not provided.