Zusammenfassung der Ressource
VERB TENSES
- PRESENT
- PRESENT SIMPLE
- Use: something that happens again and again
in the present and something that is always
true
- EXAMPLE: He lives in Igualada
- PRESENT CONTINUOUS
- Use: an action that is happening now and may continue
into the future
- EXAMPLE: She is warming up the car
while he looks for his new leather coat
- PRESENT PERFECT
- Use: something that started in the past
and continues in the present
- EXAMPLE: It's been raining four
hours
- PAST
- PAST SIMPLE
- Use: completed actions in the past,
temporals expressions
- EXAMPLE: I saw a movie yesterday
- PAST PERFECT
- Use: to express something that happened
before an action in the past
- EXAMPLE: I had been to the USE once before
- PAST CONTINUOUS
- Use: when a longer action in the past was
interrupted
- EXAMPLE: I was watching TV when she called
- FUTURE
- WILL
- USE: predictions and
instant decisions
- FORMATION: I will go there
this summer (predictions).
- BE GOING TO
- USE: plans and intentions and
things about to happen
- FORMATION: I 'm going to play
football this weekend
- PRESENT CONTINUOUS
- USE: arrangements, plans
and agenda things
- FORMATION: I'm getting
merry with Marc on the
17th of July
- PRESENT SIMPLE
- USE: time
tambles
- FORMATION: The train leaves at
10 p.m
- CONDITIONALS
- 0 CONDITIONAL
- General truths
- FORMATION: present simple + present simple
- 1 CONDITIONAL
- Predictions
- FORMATION: present simple + will
- 2 CONDITIONAL
- Hypothesis
- FORMATION: past simple + would
- 3 CONDITIONAL
- Regret
- FORMATION: past perfect + would have + past participle/ed