verb tense

Present Tenses in English	Examples
Simple present tense	They walk home.
Present continuous tense	They are walking home.
Past Tenses in English
Simple past tense	Peter lived in China in 1965.
Past continuous tense	I was reading when she arrived.
Perfect Tenses in English
Present perfect tense	I have lived here since 1987.
Present perfect continuous	I have been living here for years.
Past perfect	We had been to see her several times before she visited us.
Past perfect continuous	He had been watching her for some time when she turned and smiled.
Future perfect	We will have arrived in the States by the time you get this letter.
Future perfect continuous	By the end of your course, you will have been studying for five years.
Future Tenses in English
Simple future tense	They will go to Italy next week.
Future continuous tense	I will be travelling by train.
Conditional Tenses in English
Zero conditional	If ice gets hot it melts.
Type 1 conditional	If he is late I will be angry.
Type 2 conditional	If he was in Australia he would be getting up now.
Type 3 conditional	She would have visited me if she had had time.
Mixed conditional	I would be playing tennis if I hadn't broken my arm.
The -ing forms in English
Gerund	I like swimming.
Present participle	She goes running every morning