--- title: English tenses tags: English, grammar & vocabulary --- | Tenses | Examples | | ------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | | **Simple present** | I *play* basketball every week. | | **Present progressive** | I'm *playing* basketball now. | | **Simple past**/**Preterit** | I *played* basketball yesterday | | **Past progressive** | I *was playing* basketball the whole evening. | | **Present perfect** | I *have* just *played* basketball. | | **Present perfect progressive** | I *ahev been playing* basketball for 3 hours. | | **Past perfect** | I *had played* basketball before Mary came. | | **Past perfect progressive** | I *had been playing* basketball when Mary came. | | **Future - will** | I *will play* basketball next week. | | **Future - going to** | I'm *going to play* basketball this afternoon. | | **Future progressive** | I *will be playing* basketball next Sunday. | | **Future perfect** | I *will have played* basketball by tomorrow. | | **Conditional simple** | I *would play* basketball. | | **Conditional progressive** | I *would be playing* basketball. | | **Conditional perfect** | I *would have played* basketball. | |**Conditional perfect progressive**|I *would have been playing* basketball.|