- Simple: Describes general facts, habits, or completed actions without focusing on duration.
- Perfect: Describes completed actions in relation to another time or action.
- Progressive: Describes actions that are or were ongoing over a period of time.
- Perfect Progressive: Describes ongoing actions that were happening over time and are connected to another time point.
Aspect | Tense | Example |
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Simple | Present | I write stories. |
Past | I wrote a story. | |
Future | I will write a story. | |
Perfect | Present Perfect | I have written a story. |
Past Perfect | I had written a story. | |
Future Perfect | I will have written a story. | |
Progressive | Present Progressive | I am writing a story. |
Past Progressive | I was writing a story. | |
Future Progressive | I will be writing a story. | |
Perfect Progressive | Present Perfect Progressive | I have been writing a story. |
Past Perfect Progressive | I had been writing a story. | |
Future Perfect Progressive | I will have been writing a story. |