English Grammar English Verb Tenses with examples

Grammar Level 3- Lesson Twenty Seven

In this grammar lesson, you learn about Verb Tenses in English and how to use it in your English conversation and writing. Just follow examples and write them down a few times to learn them very well. After finishing this lesson, you should work on its quiz.

Grammar Recap

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English Verb Tenses

Before you move on to the next grammar Level, it will be helpful for you to study all the verb tenses that are used in English. Some of these verb tenses are more useful than others, but at least you should be able to identify the verb tense that you see in sentences or questions. Let’s start with the regular verb “learn.”

**learn**
simple present tense
singular	plural
I learn	We learn
You learn	You learn
He learns
She learns	They learn
It learns
simple past tense
singular	plural
I learned	We learned
You learned	You learned
He learned
She learned	They learned
It learned
simple future tense
singular	plural
I will learn	We will learn
You will learn	You will learn
He will learn
She will learn	They will learn
It will learn
present continuous tense
singular	plural
I am learning	We are learning
You are learning	You are learning
He is learning
She is learning	They are learning
It is learning
past continuous tense
singular	plural
I was learning	We were learning
You were learning	You were learning
He was learning
She was learning	They were learning
It was learning
future continuous tense
singular	plural
I will be learning	We will be learning
You will be learning	You will be learning
He will be learning
She will be learning	They will be learning
It will be learning
present perfect tense
singular	plural
I have learned	We have learned
You have learned	You have learned
He has learned
She has learned	They have learned
It has learned
past perfect tense
singular	plural
I had learned	We had learned
You had learned	You had learned
He had learned
She had learned	They had learned
it had learned
future perfect tense
singular	plural
I will have learned	We will have learned
You will have learned	You will have learned
He will have learned
She will have learned	They will have learned
It will have learned
present perfect continuous tense
singular	plural
I have been learning	We have been learning
You have been learning	You have been learning
He has been learning
She has been learning	They have been learning
It has been learning
past perfect continuous tense
singular	plural
I had been learning	We had been learning
You had been learning	You had been learning
He had been learning
She had been learning	They had been learning
It had been learning
future perfect continuous tense
singular	plural
I will have been learning	We will have been learning
You will have been learning	You will have been learning
He will have been learning
She will have been learning	They will have been learning
It will have been learning
modal verbs: ______ learn
past tense modal: ______ have learned
infinitive: to learn
gerund: learning

Practice

Directions: Write the main verb using the correct tense.

learn

1. She _________ something new today. (past)

2. They _______ _________ many new things in class recently. (present perfect)

3. I ________ ________ how to speak English. (future)

4. You ________ _________ how to play that song on the piano, but then you forgot it. (past perfect)

5. The class ________ ________ about conjugating verbs when the bell rang. (past continuous tense)

Quiz for Verb Tenses

Now that you learned your new lesson, it is time to go to the Verb Tenses page and finish your quiz. While working on your quiz, you can always go back to its lesson to refresh your memory.

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