A tense is when you change a verb according to the time.
- Verb tense
- Gramatical tense
Verb tenses[]
The verb changes according to the time, there are different type of verbs; For example the verb "play" can become "played" as you can see I just added -ed. (Regular verbs)
- Regular verbs (played, talked, watched)
- Irregular verbs (ate, became, swam, bought)
Grammatical Tense[]
- Present tense
- Simple present (I study English everyday)
- Present continuous tense (present progressive tense) (I am studying English at the moment)
- Present perfect (I have studied English in several countries)
- Present perfect continuous (I have been studied English for 10 years)
- Past tense
- Simple plast (Yesterday, I studied French)
- Past continuous (past progressive) (I was studying Math when you called me)
- Past perfect (I had studied Spanish before I moved to Guadalajara)
- Past perfect continuous (I had been studying Italian for five years before I moved to Europe)
- Future tense
- Simple future (I am going to study Esperanto next year)
- Future continuous (future progressive tense) (I will be studying Italian when you arrive tonight)
- Future perfect (I am going to have studied every tense by the time I finish this course)
- Future perfect continuous (I will have been studying English for over two hours by the time you arrive)