Tenses

Tenses are used to express time in the sentence with reference to the moment of speaking. Tense is the form taken by a verb to indicate time and continuance or completeness of action. The continuance or completeness of action is denoted by four subcategories.

1. Simple Tense: It is used for habitual or routine actions in the Present Tense, action which is over in the Past Tense and action to happen in the Future Tense.
2. Continuous Tense: The action is incomplete or continuous or going on.
3. Perfect Tense: The action is complete, finished or perfect with respect to a certain point of time.
4. Perfect Continuous Tense: The action is going on continuously over a long period of time and is yet to be finished.

There are 3 main types of tense, that is Past Tense, Present Tense, Future Tense and they are further categorized in 12 tense forms in English Language.

1. Present Tense
2. Present Continuous Tense
3. Present Perfect Tense
4. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
5. Past Tense
6. Past Continuous Tense
7. Past Perfect Tense
8. Past Perfect Continuous Tense
9. Future Tense
10. Future Continuous Tense
11. Future Perfect Tense
12. Future Perfect Continuous Tense