English Tenses Timeline Chart PDF

English Tenses Timeline Chart This timeline tenses chart provides a handy reference sheet to English tenses and their relationship to one another and the past, present and future. Conjugated verbs are highlighted in bold. Tenses which are rarely used in everyday conversation are marked by an asteri...

English Tenses Timeline Chart This timeline tenses chart provides a handy reference sheet to English tenses and their relationship to one another and the past, present and future. Conjugated verbs are highlighted in bold. Tenses which are rarely used in everyday conversation are marked by an asterisk (*). TIMELINE PROGRESSIVE / PROGRESSIVE / CONTINUOUS SIMPLE ACTIVE SIMPLE PASSIVE CONTINUOUS ACTIVE PASSIVE PAST TIME ^ | | ^ The painting had been | The house had been being painted for She had already eaten I had been waiting for four sold twice before it was PAST over a month before they began to when I arrived. hours when he finally arrived. destroyed. PERFECT decorate the interior. * | | ^ I bought a new car last The book was written in | I was watching TV when she The problem was being solved when I week. 1876 by Frank Smith. PAST arrived. arrived late for class. | | ^ She has lived in The company has been | She has been working at The students have been being taught California for many managed by Fred Jones PRESENT Johnson's for six months. for the last four hours. * years. for the last two years. PERFECT | | ^ He works five days a Those shoes are made in | I am working at the moment. The work is being done by Jim. week. Italy. PRESENT | | | FUTURE They are going to fly to New The reports are going to be completed INTENTION York tomorrow. by the marketing department. | | V | FUTURE The sun will shine The food will be brought She will be teaching tomorrow SIMPLE The rolls will be being baked at two. * tomorrow. later. at six o'clock. | | V | I will have completed The project will have FUTURE She will have been working The house will have been being built the course by the end of been finished by PERFECT here for two years by the end of for six months by the time they finish. next week. tomorrow afternoon. | next month. * | V FUTURE TIME |