Grammar tenses

He comes here.
He came here.
He will come here.

Special verbs and structures

He is likely to come.
He used to come.

The infinitive
He may come.
He may have come.
He seems to like it.
He seems to have liked it.

Time expressions
He can come tomorrow.
He can come now.
He has been here since 5 oclock.
Match the example with the name of the tense.
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Present Simple
....b......
Present Continuous
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Present Perfect
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Present Perfect Continuous ........
Past Simple
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Past Continuous
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Past Perfect
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Past Perfect Continuous
.........
Future Simple
.........
Future Continuous
.........
Future Perfect
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Future Perfect Continuous ..........

a. She is waiting for me now.

b. She goes to school by bus
c. I met her yesterday.
d. I have been reading the book since Friday
e. She was walking to school
f. We have known each other for 6 years
g. She had read the book before me.
h. We had been walking together when .....
i. She will do it famous one day.
j. We will have known each other for 6 years next month.
k. I will be celebrating my birthday at this time tomorrow.
l. We will have been working on this for 10 hours at 5
oclock.

Make sentences with the verb work in each tense.

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Present Simple (every morning)

.He works every morning..................................
Past Simple (last night)
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Future Simple (one day)
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Present Continuous (now)
............................................................................
Past Continuous ( at 9 last night)
............................................................................
Future Continuous (at this time tomorrow) ............................................................................
Present Perfect (for a long time)
............................................................................
Past Perfect (before he gave up)
............................................................................
Future Perfect (by the end of the month)
............................................................................
Present Perfect Continuous (since last week)
............................................................................
11. Past Perfect Continuous (for hours before he gave
up) ............................................................................
12. Future Perfect Continuous (for 2 years)
............................................................................

PRESENT
I am working
She is working
We are working

PAST
I was working
She was working
We were working

FUTURE
I will be working
She will be working
We will be working

PERFECT

I have worked
She has worked
We have worked

I had worked
She had worked
We had worked

I will have worked

She will have worked
We will have worked

PERFECT
CONTINUOUS

I have been working

She has been working
We have been working

I had been working

She had been working
We had been working

I will have been working

She will have been working
We will have been working

SIMPLE

I work
She works
We work

I worked
She worked
We worked

I will work
She will work
We will work

CONTINUOUS

Correct the mistakes.

1. She is stay for the night.
..is staying
2. The baby having a bath now.
3. Our teacher doesnt gives us difficult tests.
4. I didnt took an umbrella with me.
5. He have had the car for 15 years already.
6. He has had playing golf since 1998.
7. She will has finished by now.
8. We had been lived in a boat before we bought this house.
Write questions and negative forms.
1. I was writing
- Was I writing ?
2. I will write
3. I have written
4. I will have written
5. *I wrote
6. I have been writng
7. I will be writing
8. I had written
9. I will have been writing
10. I am writing
11. *I write
12. I had been writing
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- I wasnt writing
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Put the verb in brackets in the right tense. Use all 12 tenses.
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Kate usually (work) ...works... from 9 to 5.

She (work)............................. longer hours this week because she has a new project to do.
She(work) ............................................................... on it for 3 days now.
She(finish) ............................................................ half of the work already.
She (spend) .......................................... the first day preparing for the task.
She (make) ............................................. a careful plan before she started.
She (write) ........................................................... reports all morning today.
She (type) ................................................... the first report for only two or three minutes when the
computer broke down.
She (do) ...................................................... all the reports in about 3 hours.
She (write) .............................................. the reports for 7 hours by the time she finishes.
She (probably take) .......................................... a long rest when she finishes the job.
She (sit) ..................................... at home in front of her television at this time next Saturday.