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Tenses chart

February 12th, 2012 in English Learning

Learning tenses can be quite confusing but remember that basic sentence structures don’t change with change in the tense. Here is a chart that shows the structure for each tense in English.

The sentence pattern used in this chart is: subject + verb + object

Affirmative

Tense	Subject	Verb	Object
Simple present	Jane	likes	chocolates.
Present continuous	Alice	is writing	a story.
Present perfect	Peter	has broken	his leg.
Present perfect continuous	James	has been playing	the piano.
Simple past	Jane	wrote	a letter.
Past continuous	They	were singing	a song.
Past perfect	She	had made	a mistake.
Past perfect continuous	She	had been knitting	a sweater.
Simple future	I	will make	a cake.
Future continuous	She	will be singing	a song.
Future perfect	She	will have finished	the job.

Negative

Tense	Subject	Verb	Object
Simple present	Jane	does not like	chocolates.
Present continuous	Alice	is not writing	a story.
Present perfect	Peter	has not broken	his leg.
Present perfect continuous	James	has not been playing	the piano
Simple past	Jane	did not wrote	a letter.
Past continuous	They	were not singing	a song.
Past perfect	She	had not made	a mistake.
Past perfect continuous	She	had not been knitting	a sweater.
Simple future	I	will not make	a cake.
Future continuous	She	will not be singing	a song.
Future perfect	She	will not have finished	the job.

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