All Tenses Revision at Once

A tense verb form describes any action, circumstance, event, or state of being
in any sentence structure.
According to the time structure, Tenses are classified into three types: Past,
Present and Future tense.

The table below shows a chart of Tenses in English

Tense Chart Rules & Examples
Tense Formula Example

1. Present Simple Subject + Verb (v1) + s/es + Object She goes to school by bus.

2. Past Simple Subject + Verb (v2) + Object She went to school by bus.

3. Future Simple Subject + will/shall + verb (v1) + Object She will go to school by bus.

Subject + is/am/are + Verb(+ing) +

4. Present Continuous She is going to school by bus.
Object

Subject + was/were + Verb(+ing) +

5. Past Continuous She was going to school by bus.
Object

Subject + will be/shall be + verb(+ing) +

6. Future Continuous She will be going to school by bus.
Object

Subject + Has/have + Verb (v3) +

7. Present Perfect She has gone to school by bus.
Object

8. Past Perfect Sub + had + Verb (v3) + Object She had gone to school by bus.

9. Future Perfect Sub + will have + verb(v3) + Object She will have gone to school by bus.

10. Present Perfect Sub + Has/have + been + Verb(+Ing) +

She has been going to school by bus.
Continuous Object

11. Past Perfect Continuous Sub + had + been + Verb(+Ing) + Object She had been going to school by bus.

12. Future Perfect Sub + will have been + verb(+ing) + She will have been going to school by bus
Continuous Object for two years.
12 Basic Form of Tenses with Examples
1. PRESENT TENSE
A present tense describes any action that is commonly performed or is
happening in a current situation.

1.1 PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE

Simple present tense speaks about the present actions, events, or
conditions which are occurring in the current situation.
✓ Formula: Subject + V1 + Object
✓ Positive: He plays cricket.
✓ Negative: He does not play cricket.
✓ Question: Does he play cricket?
Examples
1. I polish my shoes.
2. He combs his hair.
3. She feeds her dog.
4. We feel Hungry.
5. They fight with friends.
6. You bring a book.
7. It takes two minutes.

1.2 PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE

Present continuous tense is used to tell about the ongoing actions, events,
or conditions and still not finished.
✓ Formula: Subject + am/is/are + V1 + Ing + Object
✓ Positive: We are listening to a song.
✓ Negative: We aren’t (are not) listening to a song.
✓ Question: Are we listening to a song
Examples
1. I am polishing my shoes.
2. He is combing his hair.
3. She is feeding her dog.
4. We are feeling hungry.
5. They are fighting with friends.
6. You are bringing a book.
7. It is taking two minutes.
1.3 PRESNET PERFECT TENSE
The present perfect tense is used to express the situation or event which
is completed but in a present consequence. It is a combination of the ideal
aspect done in the present tense.
✓ Formula: Subject + have/has + V3 + Object
✓ Positive: He has read to book.
✓ Negative: He hasn’t read a book.
✓ Question: Has he read a book?
Examples
1. I have polished my shoes.
2. He has combed his hair.
3. She has fed her dog.
4. We have felt hungry.
5. They have fought with friends.
6. You have brought a book.
7. It has taken two minutes.

1.4 PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE

The Present perfect continuous tense shows the situation which has been
started in the past and continues in the present.
✓ Formula: Subject + have/has + been + V1 + Ing + Object
✓ Positive: David has been losing weight.
✓ Negative: David hasn’t been losing weight.
✓ Question: Has been David losing weight?
Examples
1. I have been polishing my shoes.
2. He has been combing his hair.
3. She has been feeding her dog.
4. We have been feeling hungry.
5. They have been fighting with friends.
6. You have been bringing a book.
7. It has been taking two minutes.

2. PAST TENSE
Past tense is used to show the actions, events, or moments that have
already happened or occurred in the past
2.1 PAST SIMPLE TENSE
The simple past tense is used to describe any event, actions, moments
which occurred in the past. The simple present tense is also called a
preterite.
✓ Formula: Subject + V2 + Object
✓ Positive: Emma went to school.
✓ Negative: Emma did not go to school.
✓ Question: Did Emma go to school?
Examples
1. I polished my shoes.
2. He combed his hair.
3. She fed her dog.
4. We felt hungry.
5. They fought with friends.
6. You brought a book.
7. It took two minutes.

2.2 PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

The past continuous tense is used to express the occurring circumstance or
any continuing action that has happened in the past. It is used to describe
any action which is happening in the past.
✓ Formula: Subject + was/were + V1 + Ing + Object
✓ Positive: They were writing an essay.
✓ Negative: They weren’t writing an essay.
✓ Question: Were they writing an essay?
Examples
1. I was polishing my shoes.
2. He was combing his hair.
3. She was feeding her dog.
4. We were feeling hungry.
5. They were fighting with friends.
6. You were bringing a book.
7. It was taking two minutes.

2.3 PAST PERFECT TENSE

The past perfect tense is used to tell the happened situation which
occurred before a completed action in the past. It also shows the specific
time when the action occurred. The past perfect tense is also called a
pluperfect in English and combines the past tense and a perfect aspect.
✓ Formula: Subject + Had + V3 + Object
✓ Positive: They had bought a new mobile.
✓ Negative: They hadn’t bought a new mobile.
✓ Question: Had they bought a new mobile?
Examples
1. I had polished my shoes.
2. He had combed his hair.
3. She had fed her dog.
4. We had felt hungry.
5. They had fought with friends.
6. You had brought a book.
7. It had taken two minutes.

2.4 PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE

The past perfect continuous tense represents any action or event that
started in the past and sometimes continued until another action or another
time. It is the same as that of the past perfect tense, along with it
highlights a time duration of the action that happened before something in
the past.
✓ Formula: Subject + had + been + V1 + Ing + Object
✓ Positive: He had been reading novels since morning.
✓ Negative: He had not been reading novels since morning.
✓ Question: Had he been reading novels since morning?
Examples
1. I had been polishing my shoes
2. He had been combing his hair.
3. She had been feeding her dog.
4. We had been feeling hungry.
5. They had been fighting with friends.
6. You had been bringing a book.
7. It had been taking two minutes.

3. FUTURE TENSE
The future tense is used to express future activity or a state of being
which has not happened yet and is expected to happen in the future.
3.1 FUTURE SIMPLE TENSE
The simple future tense is used to predict or to forecast something that
will happen in the future. It is an imagination of the mind of our mind that
we plan to do something.
✓ Formula: Subject + Will + V1 + Object
✓ Positive: She will write an email.
✓ Negative: She won’t (will not) write an email.
✓ Question: Will she write an email?
Examples
1. I will polish my shoes.
2. He will comb his hair.
3. She will feed her dog.
4. We will feel hungry.
5. They will fight with friends.
6. You will bring a book.
7. It will take two minutes.

3.2 FUTURE CONTINUOUS TENSE

The future continuous tense is used to explain the ongoing action at a
particular instant in the future or happen in the future.
✓ Formula: Subject + will be + V1 + Ing + Object
✓ Positive: Ben will be going home.
✓ Negative: Ben won’t (will not) be going home.
✓ Question: Will ben go home?
Examples
1. I will be polishing my shoes.
2. He will be combing his hair.
3. She will be feeding her dog.
4. We will be feeling hungry.
5. They will be fighting with friends.
6. You will be bringing a book.
7. It will be taking two minutes.
3.3 FUTURE PERFECT TENSE
The future perfect tense is used to describe a future action that has a
fixed date schedule. This is a verb form that expresses an event planned
to happen at a particular instant of time in the future.
✓ Formula: Subject + will have + V3 + Object
✓ Positive: She will have sung a song.
✓ Negative: She won’t have sung a song.
✓ Question: Will have she sung a song?
Examples
1. I will have polished my shoes.
2. He will have combed his hair.
3. She will have fed her dog.
4. We will have felt hungry.
5. They will have fought with friends.
6. You will have brought a book.
7. It will have taken two minutes.

3.4 FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE

The future perfect continuous tense is used to explain certain activities and
events that are continuing or happening and done after some expected time
instant.
✓ Formula: Subject + will have + been + V1 + Ing + Object
✓ Positive: He will have been driving a car at 6 am tomorrow.
✓ Negative: He will not have been driving a car at 6 am tomorrow.
✓ Question: will he have been driving a car at 6 am tomorrow?
Examples
1. I will have been polishing my shoes for three years.
2. He will have been combing his hair since March.
3. She will have been feeding her dog for three years.
4. We will have been feeling hungry for two hours.
5. They will have been fighting with friends for one year.
6. You will have been bringing a book since Sunday.
7. It will have been taking two minutes since 2022.