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English Tenses Complete Guide

English tenses explain when an action happens. Learning them correctly is the key to speaking and writing fluent English. Choose any tense below to study it in complete detail with formulas, examples, exercises, quizzes, common mistakes, FAQs and practice tests.

Present Simple Tense

Learn how to describe habits, routines, facts and general truths with easy explanations and hundreds of examples.

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Present Continuous

Understand actions happening now, temporary situations and future arrangements.

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Present Perfect

Master completed actions, experiences and unfinished time periods.

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Present Perfect Continuous

Learn how to express actions that started in the past and continue today.

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Past Simple

Understand completed actions, historical events and past experiences.

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Past Continuous

Learn how to describe ongoing actions in the past and interrupted actions.

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Past Perfect

Understand actions completed before another past action.

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Past Perfect Continuous

Learn duration before another event in the past.

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Future Simple

Predictions, promises, decisions and future facts.

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Future Continuous

Actions that will be happening at a future time.

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Future Perfect

Learn actions completed before a specific future time.

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Future Perfect Continuous

Master duration before a future point with detailed explanations.

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