1. Past + Present tenses
Ariane Natalie Renée

2. Inhalt
Past + present tenses
Forms
Rules
 exercices

3. Past tenses Forms Present simple continuous Past
Present perfect simple
Present perfect continuous
Past perfect simple
Past perfect continuous
Main verb in present
„be“ in
present
Main verb in past
past
„have“ in present
„have“ in
„have“ in
„have“ in
Main verb + ing-form
Main verb +ing-form
P.p
„be“ in the p.p
„be“ in the p.p
Main verb + ing form

4. Present Simple
Rules:
Used for: permanent states:
habits and routines
permanent truths and facts:
Form: I smile

5. Present continuous
Rules:
used for... actions happening at the moment of speaking
actions happening around the moment of speaking
Descriptions
Form: I‘m smiling

6. Past simple
Rules:
Is used...  
to talk about completed actions in the past
to talk about habits in the past
to talk about events that happened one after the other
Form: I smiled

7. Past continuous
Rules:
Is used...
to talk about an activity in progress at a particular time in the past
to describe a situation or activity
when a past action is interrupted by a shorter action
when a past action takes place during another, longer past action or state
Form: I was smiling

8. perfect simple
Rules:
Used in..
times when you are talking about an event in the past, but you don't know when it happened,you don't care when it happened, when it happened is a secret.
Form: I have smiled

9. Present perfect continuous
Rules:
Is used..
to show that something started in the past and has continued up until now.
to describe the duration of an process/action
Form: I have been smiling

10. Past perfect simple
Rules:
Is used to/ for
express an action that happened before a definite time in the past
dramatic effect, looking from one point in the past to another point even further in the past
Form: I had smiled

11. Past perfect continuous:
Is used.. for longer activities that had been going on up to a definite time in the past
for repeated or continuous activities, while the simple is used for completed or single actions
Form: I had been smiling