By Present perfect, Future progressive

I was told that there are twelve tenses in English: 1: Simple Present Tense 2: Present Perfect Tense 3: Present Progressive Tense 4: Present Perfect Progressive Tense 5: Simple Past Tense 6: Past Perfect Tense 7: Past Progressive Tense 8: Past Perfect Progressive Tense 9: Simple Future...

Tanglish wrote: Hi all, I can easily indentified the present, past , future tenses, but I don't know anything about Present Participle and Past Participle Tenses. Could anyone explain me with example and when I have to use that tenses???? Thanks!!!!

Hello Mara I know there is some difference in the degree of politeness between the simple and the progressive tenses about some verbs. Examples are between <I hope that ..> and <I'm hoping that …> or between "I wonder if …> and <I'm wondering if …>. And I also learned the...

Pemmican wrote:As far as I know, there are these 13 tenses: a) Past Perfect Progressive ........................had been + present participle b) Past Perfect ..........................................had + past participle c) Past Progressive ...................................was/were + present...

Please help me, could u tell me what these are, I wrote that I think they might be, but im not sure Look through the following sentences and decide which are in the PRESENT SIMPLE tense, which are in the PAST SIMPLE tense and which are referring to future time. E.g. 1. We visited Spain last...

I think I found some mistakes. Here: 2) 2-present Simple 4-(I am not sure of what you wrote there so) future simple 5-past Simple 4) 2-past perfect 5-She had had that dog since she was ten - maybe I'm wrong but it seems to me that 'She has had that dog since she had been ten' is better 6 -...

Exercise 2 Look through the following sentences and decide which are in the PRESENT SIMPLE tense, which are in the PAST SIMPLE tense and which are referring to future time. E.g. 1. We visited Spain last year. Past simple 2. The shop on the corner is open every Sunday. Past simple 3. I...

We are having 20 boxes delivered tomorrow. The above sentence uses what is called "causative form". We use the causative form to indicate that we are not doing something ourselves, but have arranged someone else to do it for us. The structure is: subject + have + object + past participle Note...

Active Voice 1) I will be washing the car if you visit me at 5 tomorrow. (Future Progressive) 2) I have been washing the car when you visited me at 5. (Present Perfect Progressive) 3) I had been washing the car at 4 when you visited me at 5.(Past Perfect Progressive) 4) I will have been...

Hi, I am having trouble with verb phrases - wondering if you could explain them - need to chose from the list (future progressive etc..) what each one is. Future progressive,Past progressive,Past perfect progressive,Present simple,Past perfect simple, Future perfect simple,Present perfect...