The English Language Grammar Book
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Present Tenses
- Present Simple Tense
- Present Simple Definition 1: Why Simple? Isn’t it complicated :)?
- Present Simple Definition 2: Why indefinite?
- Present Simple Usage 1: Repeated actions
- Present Simple Usage 2: Repeated actions with frequency words
- Present Simple Usage 3: Unchanging (permanent) situations
- Present Simple Usage 4: General realities and truths, world truths
- Present Simple Usage 5: To state facts
- Present Simple Usage 6: For past actions! (jokes, stories, books, etc)
- Present Simple Usage 7: For pre-planned, scheduled future actions
- Present Simple Usage 8: Action at the moment of speaking
- Present Continuous Tense, also Present Progressive
- Present Continuous Usage 1: Action at the moment of speaking
- Present Continuous Usage 2: Action happening “Near now” or “around now”
- Present Continuous Usage 3: Action in development and progress
- Present Continuous Usage 4: With “always”, “constantly” to express irritation
- Present Continuous Usage 5: Action in near future / planned action
- Present Continuous Usage 6: With stative verbs
- Present Perfect Tense
- Present Perfect Definition 1: Why “Present” for a past action?
- Present Perfect Definition 2: The meaning of “perfect”
- Present Perfect Usage 0: When we don’t use Present Perfect
- Present Perfect Usage 1: Actions started in the past and continuing in the present
- Present Perfect Usage 2: In a conversation
- Present Perfect Usage 3: Moment of action is not specified
- Present Perfect Usage 4: Actions in unfinished time period: this year
- Present Perfect Usage 5: Recent action
- Present Perfect Usage 6: Past action with present consequences (results in the present)
- Present Perfect Tense Exam
- Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- Present Perfect Continuous Usage 1: Action started in the past and continues into the present
- Present Perfect Continuous Usage 2: Action started in the past and continues into the present
- Present Perfect Continuous Usage 3: Action started in the past and continues into the present
- Present Perfect Continuous Usage 4: State started in the past and continues into the present
- Present Perfect Continuous Usage 5: Action started in the past and stopped recently
Past Tenses
- Past Continuous Tense, also Past Progressive
- Past Continuous: Introduction: Usage overview
- Past Continuous Usage 1: Action at exact time on clock
- Past Continuous Usage 2: Parallel actions
- Past Continuous Usage 3: Perpendicular actions
- Past Continuous Usage 4: Action at a period of time
- Past Continuous Usage 5: Repeated actions
- Past Continuous Usage 6: Contextual time
- Past Continuous Usage 7: To describe scene background
- Past Continuous Usage 8: With verb “wonder”
Future Tenses
- Future Simple Tense
- Future Simple Introduction: usage overview
- Future Simple Usage 1: to express spontaneous decisions
- Future Simple Usage 2: to make predictions
- Future Simple Usage 3: to make suggestions
- Future Simple Usage 4: to offer to do something
- Future Simple Usage 5: to give orders
- Future Simple Usage 6: to ask someone to do something
- Future Simple Usage 7: to point out malfunctions, refusals to do something
- Future Simple Usage 8: after verb “think”
- Future Simple Usage 9: after verb “hope”
- Future Simple Additional Rule: after: if / when / after / before / as soon as / unless / until