English Grammar Lessons

Past Simple or Present Perfect

(Remember that British and American English have different rules for the use of the present perfect. The comments and the

We use the past perfect simple to talk about what happened before a point in the past. It looks back

We use the past perfect continuous to look back at a situation in progress. It was a good time to

We can use the past simple to talk about actions and states which we see as completed in the past. I left

We can use the past simple to talk about actions and states which we see as completed in the past. I left

There is no one ‘future tense’ in English. There are 4 future forms. The one which is used most often

Some people have been taught that ‘will’ is ‘the future’ in English. This is not correct. Sometimes when we talk

We can use ‘will be doing’ to talk about something that will be in progress at a particular moment in

When we want to talk about future facts or things we believe to be true about the future, we use

We use the present continuous to talk about things that we have already arranged to do in the future. I’ve