Tense (active voice)

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Future Perfect

The future perfect tense is formed by using will have + past participle The past participle form of a regular verb ends with -ed (danced, cooked, listened). The past perfect...

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Future Perfect Progressive

The future perfect Progressive (continuous) tense is formed with four verbs: will + have + been + present participle The first three verbs are always will have been, no matter...

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Future Progressive

The future Progressive (continuous) tense is a verb tense that shows an action happening over a period of time in the future. “I will be dancing all night” is an...

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Future with Will

We normally use WILL to speak about the future. It is always combined with another verb. Since WILL is classified as a modal verb (like can, would, could, should) it...

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Past Perfect Progressive

What Is Past Perfect Progressive (Continuous) Tense? Both the past perfect and the past perfect continuous (also called the past perfect progressive) can be used to talk about past actions...

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Past Perfect

The past perfect, also called the pluperfect, is a verb tense used to talk about something that happened before something else that is also in the past. Imagine waking up...

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Past Progressive

The past progressive tense is a verb form used to refer to an action that was ongoing at a time in the past. The past progressive is formed using the...

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Simple Past

The Past Simple Tense (also known as Simple Past Tense) is often just called the Past Tense. If you already know how to use the Present Tense, then the Past...

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Present Perfect Progressive

As you probably remember, generally speaking we use the present perfect to connect something in the past to the present. For example, I’ve lost my purse. Can you help me...

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Present Perfect

The Present Perfect Tense is formed using the following structure: Affirmative: Subject + Have / Has + Past Participle Negative: Subject + Haven’t / Hasn’t + Past Participle Question: Have...