If you practice hard, you’ll become an expert in this part of grammar. You will speak to foreigners and understand them rather well

  Simple Tense (простий час) Continuous (тривалий) Perfect (здійснений) Perfect-Continuous
Present + I often watch TV. ? Do you like it? - I don’t like it much. +He is watching a film now. ? Is Ann watching it at present? - She is not watching TV at the moment. + I have just watched a film. ? Have you ever seen it? - I haven’t seen it yet. + I have been watching TV for an hour. ? Have you been watching for long? - I haven’t been doing it.
Past +I watched TV last night. ? Did you like it? - I didn’t like it at all. + I was watching TV at 2 o’clock yesterday. ? Were you watching a comedy? - I wasn’t doing it. + I had watched TV by 2 o’clock yesterday. ? Had Ann watched it before I came? - She hadn’t done it. + I had been watching TV for an hour by that time. ? Had Ann been watching TV for long before I came? - She hadn’t been doing it.
Future + I will help you ? Will you help Nick? - I won’t help him. +I will be watching TV at 2 o’clock tomorrow. ? Will you be watching a film? - I won’t be watching it. +I’ll have watched TV by 2 o’clock tomorrow. ? Will you have watched a film before Ann comes? - I won’t have watched it by then. + He will have been watching a film for an hour before you come. ? Will you have been watching a film for long by that time? - I won’t have been watching it for long.
Future in the Past + I would do it. ? Would you do it? - I wouldn’t do it. + I would be doing it this time tomorrow. ? Would you be doing it? - I wouldn’t be doing it. + I’d have done it by 5 o’clock. ? Would you have done it? - I wouldn’t have done it. + I would have been doing it for ages by that time. ? Would you have been doing it? - I wouldn’t have been doing it.

Practice – Grammar in use

Task 1: Using the table of tenses and time expression make up sixteen sentences. Try one situation for a tense.


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