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

Are you confused about your simple, perfect and continuous tenses? Do you know how many verb tenses there are in English? After you watch, continue practicing with a certified English teacher: bit.ly/ooe-teac....
In this lesson, you can get a big picture understanding of English verb tenses. You’ll learn what connects English verb forms, which will make it easier for you to learn and understand verb tenses in English.
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Note: There is a mistake in the text at 10:40. It should say "I'll have finished all my exams" not, "I'll have finished all by exams".
Contents:
1. Overview of English Verb Forms 0:35
2. Past, Present and Future Verb Forms 3:12
3. Simple Verb Forms 5:50
4. Continuous Verb Forms 7:35
5. Perfect Verb Forms 9:33
6. Perfect Continuous Verb Forms 12:39
This lesson will help you:
- Understand the main differences between the simple, continuous, and perfect tenses.
- Learn the correct verb forms in each tense.
- See the difference between the verb tense forms and their actual meanings.
- See simple verb forms in detail.
- Understand the different continuous verb forms.
- Detail the correct perfect verb forms.
- Learn about the perfect continuous tense and its verb forms.
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00:01 Learn about English verb tenses 02:22 Different words are used for verb tenses and aspects, but focus on the ideas instead of the words. 04:19 English has many possible future forms 06:24 Verb forms for single and repeated actions 08:44 Continuous forms describe incomplete actions at a moment in time, while perfect forms use 'have' and a past participle to describe completed actions. 10:52 Perfect verb forms connect two points in time 12:57 Perfect continuous forms combine perfect and continuous aspects. 15:21 Overview of English verb forms Crafted by Merlin AI.

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