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English Tenses and Their Formulas

The document discusses the 12 main verb tenses in English including present, past, and future tenses. It provides the name, formula, and example question for each tense - the simple present, present continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, simple past, past continuous, past perfect, past perfect continuous, simple future, future continuous, future perfect, and future perfect continuous.

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English Tenses and Their Formulas

The document discusses the 12 main verb tenses in English including present, past, and future tenses. It provides the name, formula, and example question for each tense - the simple present, present continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous, simple past, past continuous, past perfect, past perfect continuous, simple future, future continuous, future perfect, and future perfect continuous.

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  • Present Tense
  • Past Tense
  • Future Tense

Tenses

Present Tense
Name of tense: Simple Present Tense
1

Formula: No Formula (only the present form of the verb is used)


Question: What always happens?
Name of tense: Present Continuous Tense

Formula: is / am / are + present participle


Question: What is happening?
Name of tense: Present Perfect Tense

Formula: has / have + past participle


Question: What has happened?
Name of tense: Present Perfect Continuous Tense

Formula: has / have + been + present participle


Question: What has been happening?
Past Tense
Name of tense: Simple Past Tense

Formula: No Formula (only the past form of the verb is used)


Question: What happened?
Name of tense: Past Continuous Tense

Formula: was / were + present participle


Question: What was happening?
Name of tense: Past Perfect Tense

Formula: had + past participle


Question: What had happened?
Name of tense: Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Formula: had + been + present participle


Question: What had been happening?

Future Tense
Name of tense: Simple Future Tense
9

Formula: will / shall + root verb


Question: What will happen?
Name of tense: Future Continuous Tense

10

Formula: will / shall + be + present participle


Question: What will be happening?
Name of tense: Future Perfect Tense

11

Formula: will + have + past participle


Question: What will have happened?
Name of tense: Future Perfect Continuous Tense

12

Formula: will + have + been + present participle


Question: What will have been happening?

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