English Verb Tenses Guide - Learn About Simple, Perfect, and Continuous Tenses

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Good question, Andalouz. Using the preset perfect in this situation means the keys are still lost. Using the past simple asks if at some time in the past they saw the keys. It's one, finished activity in the past and is not connected to the present. Perhaps the keys were found. Hope this is useful for you!

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Three times Four aspects Repeated actions and states A moment in the incomplete action Perfect tenses connects two different in time Perfect continuous tense

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This topic is not easy to explain, but you have your ways of explaning the topic well which is amazing. Although there's something you're not discussing in the video which is this : - Can we use the past continous for a completed action especially with the time expression 'For hours' to emphasize that something continued / lasted for a while ? For example : "I was waiting for you for hours !" Is that possible ? We're taught to use the past simple for completed actions and the past continous for incomplete actions. But is it possible to use the past continous for completed actions ? If so, then the past continous can be used for both completed and incomplete actions This is other grammar confusion for me, Thank you!

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Hi there. Thanks for watching. We're glad you enjoyed the lesson. For the past continuous, we express an activity that was continuous at a certain point in the past, but it is a completed action because it is not still true now. We have a few other lessons which might also be helpful for you: www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/talk-about-the-past-in-english, www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/tell-a-story. Hope this is useful for you!

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Hi, thanks all the tenses explained in 17 mins, that's great! Although I'm quite confused, because you said "we're usually creating points in time with these tenses" , my question is : why is the word "usually" used together with the present continuous ? As far as I know the word "usually" is linked with the present simple , but why use the word "usually" together with the present continuous in the sentence ? I would like explanations, thank you a lot

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1. Simple present tense 2. Present continuous tense 3. Present perfect tense 4. Present perfect continuous tense 5. Simple past tense 6. Past continuous tense 7. Past perfect tense 8. Past perfect continuous tense 9. Simple future tense 10. Future continuous tense 11. Future perfect tense 12. Future perfect continuous tense 13. Simple past future tense 14. Past future continuous tense 15. Past future perfect tense 16. Past future perfect continuous tense

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In the sentence "• By the end of the day, we’ll have been working without a break for 14 hours" which are the points that this tense connect? now and future or xx hours ago, when the activity started and the future? Thank you so much, I really enjoy all your videos!

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Hi Claudia. We are staying that at the time the day is finished (you can imagine 6pm on Monday) the amount of work we'll be doing is 14 hours with no break (you can imagine starting at 4am on Monday). So another way to think about it, we are talking about a future day (Monday) where we will be continuously working all day from 4am to 6pm with no break. Hope this helps you!

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Teacher Martin 1. I went Shopping once a week 2. She was running in the park 3. We had not seen it Commend : the first sentence conveys a habitual action why can't we modify the sentence as I used to go for the shopping once a week. The Second sentence : she was running in the park '.The past continuous park is not experiencing a complete meaning . It could be modified as she was running in the park when i saw her Third Sentence : we hadn't seen it -past simple with the word her should be replaced with word did modified sentence we didn't seen it or we haven't seen it-more corrective I go to work by bus -X I usually go to work by bus (habitual action) we hadn't thought about it -X we haven't thought about it until asked about it(better expression) past perfect sequence : when I had brushed my teeth i had breakfast Note: Earlier action is expressed in the past perfect ;the later action should be in the past simple this is the best way to teach past perfect. she had been feeling much better =this sentence can be modified as -She had been feeling much better after treatment in the hospital.

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