The Twelve Tenses: A Quick Explanation of When/Why We Use Each Tense in English

The Twelve Tenses of English: A Quick Introduction to How and Why We Use Each Tense
You aren't going to learn to use the twelve tenses perfectly by watching one video. Learning all of them takes time and practice.
However, you can quickly learn the basic reasons WHY we use each of them, and that's what this video is for.
This video explains the basic reasons why we use each of the twelve tenses, gives you an example or two for each tense, and explains some of the basic structures that we use with the different tenses.
I'm Teacher Mike, and I'm an English teacher from the United States. I usually post 3-5 new English learning videos/lessons each week, so make sure to subscribe to this channel and turn on your notifications if you are interested in improving your English.

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[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

Thanks!😅

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[@Kai-lx1hh]

let’s say if someone started painting walls 2 days ago but his work is finished yet,shall i use present continuous or present perfect continuous. for example i have heard people saying i am doing bachelor(degree) in science. why don’t they say “i have been doing bachelor(degree) in science. which would be correct to say ?i am painting walls or i have been painting walls

[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

Present perfect continuous focuses more on the fact that something started in the past. Present continuous focuses on the fact that something is continuing now.

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[@tribbianikarthik7817]

What about passive form? I just wanna say that the teacher called my friend yesterday. So today, can i say this to my friend__ my friend is called.(it's true now) Or should i say My friend has been called Which should i say?

[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

My friend was called.

[@haiyen1439]

Hi, teacher. Are the sentences correct? 1/ This is my mother and father 2/ These are my mother and father 3/ That is a book and three pens 4/ Those are a book and three pens Thanks a lot

[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

1 and 2: These are my parents.✅ 3 and 4: Both are awkward. Think about why you are saying that/what the context is. What do you really want to tell the other person?

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I have a lot to learn still.

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Wow! That was very handy! This video put in order everything I'd been learning at school about English tenses for 6 years! Thanks a lot!

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Could you please subtitle the examples thanks

[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

Hi. You are welcome to turn the captions on.😃

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Well done 👏 teacher it's been awesome. I have learnt so much about them. It will help me. I didn't know there were twelve tenses in english. I will be learning them

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It's a bit complicated in informal spoken language use all the tenses....i guess perfect continuous tenses are more....novelists and poets' tools 😅

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How we can saying we can be fluent in english ? I mean we can get mark into ourself we as fluency in english. For example i understand some people speaking in english like you, but some part when i watching trevor noah stand up comedy, i am totally loosing with him jokes. Or steve harvey interview im not really understand he said. Just understand you and several native speakers. Not at all. Thank you

[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

Fluent just means that you can express your ideas easily without stopping too much.

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[@plumhexagon]

Great vid, 8:02 - future simple 2:00 - present perfect

[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

Thanks!

[@Kai-lx1hh]

what do you exactly mean by 😞i have been busy in present perfect tense. does it mean you were busy in past and you are still busy or you just stopped busy before now?

[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

It could mean either one.

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[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

Thank you.

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Was this video made with AI? He doesn’t look like natural

[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

No.

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Read us the stories, sir, please

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That's too difficult. Most stories are copyrighted. And I did read a story once, and the video performed very poorly.

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Excuse me teacher I don't understand this can you explain what is the difference between. It will be finished and it will be finishing?

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Finished = finished Finishing = not yet finished

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Thanks! I'm happy to hear that you liked it!

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The chef has prepared a delicious meal for us.

[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

Present perfect.✅😃

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Thanks, teacher Mike. I'm from Brazil and I knew (or met?) your channel for the first time last week, and I liked the way you explain things. This video is very interesting, I didn't remember from my English school that there was a "future perfect", neither a "future perfect continuous".

[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

Thanks! I would say FOUND, CAME ACROSS, or DISCOVERED.

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@@TeacherMikeEnglish thanks! Have a good weekend!

[@tuanhoang6536]

Wonderful, amazing, very easy to understand.I do like your video.Thanks to your explanation,I find it easy to fully understand English tenses.And what about the future in the past tense,it seems to me that English speakers ignore the tense.I have found many English grammar books by both English and American authors,but I can't understand the use of future in the past in daily life completely.If possible,could you please make a video on the tense.Thank you so much.

[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

Can you give me an example of future in the past?

[@tuanhoang6536]

He said he would send me a postcard.

[@tuanhoang6536]

He said he was going to leave

[@protraingprotraing7237]

Thank you Mike. The Passive Voice isn' t considered as a Tense ?

[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

No.

[@protraingprotraing7237]

@@TeacherMikeEnglish Thanks, and how is it called in grammar terms? A form ?

[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

A voice?

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@@TeacherMikeEnglish Sorry, I don' t understand your answer!

[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

Passive voice is a voice.

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