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PRESENT, PAST AND FUTURE TENSES

PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE

STRUCTURE

USES

TIME EXPRESSIONS

PASTPERFECT

TIME EXPRESSIONS

  • by the time
  • as soon as
  • until
  • after
  • before
  • yet

We can use the past perfect to show the order of two past events. The past perfect shows the earlier action and the past simple shows the later action. When the police arrived, the thief had escaped.We can also use before + past perfect to show that an action was not done or was incomplete when the past simple action happened.They left before I'd spoken to them.

FUTURE TENSES

FUTURE PERFECT

FUTURE CONTINUOUS

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