Verb Tenses/Aspects
Aspects
Tense Timelines
Examples
100

The tense you would use to refer to something you have done.

Simple Past

100

The aspect which most often applied to describe a single event or action.

What is the Simple aspect?

100

An X on a tense timeline indicates this.

What is a single point in time?
100

This example is an example of which verb tense?

He will be playing football.

What is the Future Continuous Tense?

200

The term used to describe a mountain of cats

What is a meowtain?

200

The aspect which is most often used to describe unfinished events.

What is the Continuous aspect?

200

A solid line on a tense timeline indicates this

What is a sure passage of time?

200

A term to describe a broken pencil

What is pointless?

300

The tense that you would use to describe something you will have done in the future.

Future perfect

300

The aspect which is used to describe one event in relation to other events.

What is the Perfect aspect?

300

A dotted line on a tense timeline indicates this

What is a possible passage of time?
300

This example is an example of which verb tense?

"He had been completing his assignment for the last two hours."

What is the Past Perfect Continuous Tense?

400

The tense that you would use to describe something that you did for an unspecified duration in the past.

Past Perfect Continuous

400

The aspect which is used to describe duration.

What is the Perfect Continuous aspect?

400

The Y axis on a tense timeline represents this

What is the present moment?

400

This is an example of which verb tense?

"She has been working in this department since 2017."

What is the Present Perfect Continuous Tense?

500

The tense that you would use to describe something that you will have done for duration without a specific endpoint in the future.

What is the Future Perfect Continuous tense?

500

The term used for a fast zombie

What is a zoombie?

500

A fish with no eyes is called...?

What is a fshhhh?

500

This example is an example of which verb tense?

"He will have been watching the football match for over fifty minutes."

What is the Future Perfect Continuous Tense?