Types of Tenses

Tenses indicate the time that an action happened; it is reflected in the verb.

There are twelve different types of tenses to conjugate verbs: 
  • Simple Tenses: Simple Present, Simple Past, Simple Future
  • Continuous Tenses: Present Continuous, Past Continuous, Future Continuous
  • Perfect Tenses: Present Perfect, Past Perfect, Future Perfect
  • Perfect Continuous Tenses: Present Perfect Continuous, Past Perfect Continuous, Future Perfect Continuous
See bellow for the types of tenses, and when you should use each one of them:

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