TENSES

Bài học diễn tả Hiện tại đơn, hiện tại hoàn thành, hiện tại tiếp diễn. Quá khứ đơn, quá khứ hoàn thành và quá khứ tiếp diễn TENSES Present: Simple, Perfect, and Progressive

TENSES

Present: Simple, Perfect, and progressive

A. Use present simple for routines, habits, or things that are always true.

• He takes the subway. (Every day)

B. Use present progressive (Is/are -ing) for a temporary routine or situation.

• He is taking the subway. (now)

C. Use present perfect (Have/Has-ed) for a situation where things that happened in the past have a result in the present.

• Present perfect often goes with just, yet, for, since, ever, never, first time, second time, this week.
• He has just cut himself. (We can see the direct immediate result of this action - the blood )

Past: Simple, Perfect, and Progressive

A. Use past simple for something that was finished in the past.

• She traveled in Europ. (At some time in the past)

B. Use past progressive (was/were -ing) for a temporary routine or situation that happened in the past.

• She was traveling in Europe. (Last summer; for one month)

C. Use past perfect (Had-ed) for something that happened before a certain point time in the past.

• She had traveled in Europe before she decided to study there.

Future: Use of Will and Other Words with Future Meaning

• A. Use will for instant decision
• Ok. I will accept your offer
• B. Use be going to for established plans
• They are going to buy drinks for the party
• C. Use present simple instead of future tense in adverbial clauses led by if, the moment, when, etc.
• We will start the moment he arrives.