The Past Tenses
How many forms are there in the past tense?
4: Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, Past Perfect Continuous
This tense is used to describe an action that happened at an unspecified time in the past but is still relevant now.
Present Perfect
What do perfect tenses express?
The relationship between two points in time.
How many conditionals are there?
Four
Out of these 4 situations, when do we use Past Simple?: Something continued for some time; Something happened several times; Something happened before and after a specific time; An action that happened before another action in the past.
Something happened several times
This tense emphasises the duration of an activity that started in the past and is still continuing now.
Present Perfect Continuous
How do you formulate a present perfect sentence?
Subject + have/has + past participle
We convey general truths with the help of ...
Zero conditionals
In which tense do we form verbs with “had+past participle of a verb”?
Past Perfect Simple
Verbs like know, believe, and own typically use this present tense instead of the continuous form.
Present Simple
Create a present perfect continuous sentence with these words:
I/ work on this project/ two hours
I have been working on this project for two hours.
Third conditionals are used when unreal situation/s happen/ed in the ...
Past
How do you form an interrogative sentence in Past Perfect Continuous? (Structure)
had + subject + been + verb-ing
When you say, “We are flying to Rome next week,” you are using this tense to describe a planned future arrangement.
Present Continuous
What do we use the future perfect continuous for?
For an action completed before a future time.
The second conditional is used for situations which are ...
Unreal OR Improbable OR Impossible (any of these keywords grant you the point)
In Past Perfect Simple, which tense is used for the more recent action?
Past Simple (for example: Anna had left when we arrived.)
Which 2 tenses do we use when we talk about the future in clauses with before, after, until, etc.?
Present Simple and Present Perfect (I'll keep looking until I find my book. OR I'll keep looking until I have found my book.)
Create a future perfect continuous sentence with these words:
He/ teach at this school/ 2020/ 6 years
By 2020, he will have been teaching at this school for 6 years.
The order of the clauses is ...
Interchangeable. "If you heat the ice, it melts." <---> "Ice melts if you heat it."