Verbs Sheet 2: Tenses & Forms
Learn all forms of English verbs, including all common tenses, conditionals and the gerund. Browse this website for more information.
| Present Tenses in English | Examples |
| Present Simple Tense | He smokes cigars |
| Present Continuous Tense | He is smoking a cigar right now |
| Past Tenses in English | |
| Past Simple Tense | I visited London in 2005. |
| Past Continuous Tense | I was reading a magazine when he arrived. |
| Perfect Tenses in English | |
| Present Perfect Tense | She has lived here since 2001. |
| Present Perfect Continuous | He has been coming to this club for decades. |
| Past Perfect | We had met this couple a few times before they decided to get married. |
| Past Perfect Continuous | She had been watching him for some time when they realized that they knew each other. |
| Future Perfect | They will have crosses the border by the time you get this message. |
| Future Perfect Continuous | By the end of this year, you will have been living here for a decade. |
| Future Tenses in English | |
| Simple Future Tense | We will go to Barcelona next month. |
| Future Continuous Tense | I will be visiting Berlin next week. |
| Conditional Forms in English | |
| Zero conditional | If temperature rises, ice melts |
| Type 1 conditional | If we're late, she will be very upset. |
| Type 2 conditional | If she was in Japan she would be sleeping now. |
| Type 3 conditional | She would have visited me if she had had time. |
| Mixed conditional | I would be playing tennis if I hadn't broken my arm. |
| The -ing forms in English | |
| Gerund | I enjoy traveling. |
| Present participle | She goes swimming every day |
Practice:
- When Stephen ________________ (arrive) home, Jennifer ________________ (watch) television.
- I ________________ (prepare) dinner when the telephone ________________ (ring).
- What ________________ (you do) when the postman ________________(arrive)?
- Kimberly ________________ (learn) to drive when she ________________ (work) in London.
- Where ________________ (you sit) when the show ________________ (begin)?
- I ________________ (visit) Athens while I ________________ (tour) Greece.
- It was when he ________________ (cross) the street that John ________________ (fall).
- What ________________ (you see) while you ________________ (wait) for the bus?
- Where ________________ (you go) when your car ________________ (break) down?
- Annie ________________ (meet) Josh when she ________________ (walk) in the park.
Answer Key
- arrived - was watching
- was preparing - rang
- were you doing - arrived
- learnt/learned - was working
- were you sitting - began
- visited - was touring
- was crossing - fell
- did you see - you were waiting
- were you going - broke down
- met - was walking
