Grammar Lessons

The future perfect tense is formed using the auxiliaries “will” and “have” together followed by the past participle of the main verb. This tense is used to describe an action that is expected to be completed at a time in future.

The future Continuous tense is formed using Subject + Will + Be + Verb(ing)”. The future continuous tense is only used with action verbs, such as “go”, “run”, “do” and “read”.

The simple future tense is used to talk about the things which are not yet happened. It talks about an action which will happen in future, or which is predicted to happen in future. We use the auxiliaries “Shall” and “Will” in making the future tense.

The past perfect continuous tense is also known as the past perfect progressive tense. It describes an action that had started in the past and was continuing during a time in past.

The past perfect tense is formed using the auxiliary “had” followed by the past participle of the main verb.

The Past Continuous Tense is used to describe an action which was happening during a time in the past.

The simple past tense describes an action or an activity that happened in the past. Here, it does not consider whether the subject of the sentence is singular or plural and put the verb in the past tense only.

The present perfect continuous tense which is also known as the present perfect progressive tense represents something started in past and is continuing at present. We use the present perfect continuous tense to describe actions that have been started in the past and stopped recently, or some past actions which are still continuing. The words “for” and “since” are often used with these sentences.

The present perfect tense is formed using the present form of the verb “to have” (has/have – depending on the subject of the sentence) followed by the past participle of the main verb.