Verb Tenses

Used for habits, facts, routines, and general truths

Actions happening now or around now, and temporary situations

Completed actions or states in the past with a finished time reference

Decisions made now, predictions, promises, offers, and future facts

Choosing simple vs continuous forms for present, past, future

Plans, intentions, and predictions based on evidence: I'm going to visit Paris

Actions in progress at a specific past time: was/were + verb-ing

Links past actions to the present: life experience, recent events, unfinished time

Actions that started in the past and continue now, or recently stopped with a present result

Actions completed before another past action/time: had + past participle

Actions in progress at a specific future time: will be + verb-ing

Talking about plans/predictions from a past perspective: would, was going to

Actions in progress before another past event: had been + verb-ing

Using present simple and continuous for scheduled future events

Action completed before a specific future time: will have + V3

Actions in progress up to a future point: will have been + verb-ing