Four tenses in present
- Present simple
- Present continuous
- Present perfect
- Present perfect continuous
Present simple
- How? Verb or verb + s
- When is it used?
1. A habit
2. A fact
- Example: I walk to school every day.
- Keywords: Always, usually, everyday
Present continuous
- How? Form of to be + verb + ing
- When is it used?
1. If something happens now.
2. If it’s still happening.
- Example: I’m walking to school right now.
- Keywords: Now, right now, at the moment.
Present perfect
- How? Have/has + past participle
- When is it used?
1. Something started in the past and is still happening.
2. The result of it is still there.
- Example: She has done her homework.
- Keywords: for, yet, never, since.
Present perfect continuous
- How? Have/has + been + verb + ing
- When is it used?
1. You’re annoyed.
2. To stress out the duration of something.
- Example: I have been waiting for hours.
- Keywords: For hours, for ages.
- Present simple
- Present continuous
- Present perfect
- Present perfect continuous
Present simple
- How? Verb or verb + s
- When is it used?
1. A habit
2. A fact
- Example: I walk to school every day.
- Keywords: Always, usually, everyday
Present continuous
- How? Form of to be + verb + ing
- When is it used?
1. If something happens now.
2. If it’s still happening.
- Example: I’m walking to school right now.
- Keywords: Now, right now, at the moment.
Present perfect
- How? Have/has + past participle
- When is it used?
1. Something started in the past and is still happening.
2. The result of it is still there.
- Example: She has done her homework.
- Keywords: for, yet, never, since.
Present perfect continuous
- How? Have/has + been + verb + ing
- When is it used?
1. You’re annoyed.
2. To stress out the duration of something.
- Example: I have been waiting for hours.
- Keywords: For hours, for ages.
