Choose a lesson
- Present simple tenseUse the present simple for habits, facts, routines and repeated actions.
- Present continuous tenseUse the present continuous for actions happening now or around now, and temporary situations.
- Present perfect tenseUse the present perfect for experience, recent changes and unfinished time.
- Present perfect continuous tenseUse this tense for actions that started in the past and continue now, especially to show duration.
- Past simple tenseUse the past simple for finished actions at a finished time.
- Past continuous tenseUse the past continuous for an action in progress at a time in the past.
- Past perfect tenseUse the past perfect to show that one past action happened before another past action.
- Past perfect continuous tenseUse it to show duration before a past event.
- Future simple tenseUse will for decisions, predictions and promises.
- Future continuous tenseUse it for an action that will be in progress at a future time.
- Future perfect tenseUse it for something completed before a future time.
- Future perfect continuous tenseUse it for duration up to a future point.
How to use grammar for speaking
Do not memorise long grammar rules. Learn one sentence pattern, say it aloud, then change the subject, time and place.