Future Continuous Tense, also Future Progressive
Future Simple Tense
Past Perfect Continuous (Progressive) Tense
Past Perfect Continuous (Progressive) Tense, is it difficult? No. It just shows that an action started in the past and continued up to a defined point in the past. It’s very close to Present Perfect Continuous. So, what is the difference? Present Perfect Continuous: an action “continues up to the present.” Past Perfect Continuous: an …
Past Perfect Tense, also Pluperfect
Pluperfect in Latin means “more than perfect.” Well I would say “more than complete.” “Perfect” means “complete, completed” in the name of the tense. Ok, back on track. So, more than complete. Why? Is it like complete complete? 🙂 It means that action was (had been) completed before something else was completed. Without further ado, …
Past Continuous Tense, also Past Progressive
Past Continuous Tense, also Past Progressive Tense, introduction to parallel actions, perpendicular actions…. Oh yes! I call them perpendicular! Additionally, point or period in time for continuous actions in the past.
Present Perfect Continuous Tense
Also called Present Perfect Progressive Tense. Uses: Action started in the past and stopped recently or just stopped Present Perfect Continuous vs Present Perfect Simple: Action started in the past and continues in the present etc
Present Simple Tense
We also call this tense Present Indefinite.
Question words, interrogative words, WH question words, wh-words, interrogative pronouns (all of these mean the same)
All question words you can imagine.
Introduction to Tenses - a must-learn course
In this course we are going to discuss the fundamental principles in tenses. The time concept, the doer of the action, action, verb, difference between them, non-action verb etc.
Present Continuous
We call this tense Present Continuous. However, we can use it not only for the present actions that are happening right now. Not only for the ongoing actions that are in process in the present, and they are not happening right now. We can use it for the future actions instead of using future tenses!