TENSES
How many tenses do English speakers actually use?
English grammar and tenses
Studying English and wondering
if you really need to learn all of those tenses? You’re not the only one.
There’s no denying that English has a lot of grammar to learn. There are
arguments about how many tenses there really are, but it certainly feels like
learning them is an endless process for English learners.
How many verb tenses are
there in English?
Two, actually. Past and present.
The rest of what you think of as tenses are
actually aspects of a tense; the past perfect is an aspect of the past tense.
And we talk about the future using different modal verbs, like will.
So do English speakers use all of the
tenses in English? Yes, of course, if you’re convinced there are only two.
However, most summaries of English tenses show that there are 12 tenses, and
learners are instructed to study and use them all.
Table of the English tenses
Past
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Present
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Future
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Simple
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I went
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I go
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I will go
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Continuous
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I was going
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I am going
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I will be going
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Perfect
|
I had gone
|
I have gone
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I will have gone
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Perfect continuous
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I had been going
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I have been going
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I will have been going
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