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.