Simple Present Tense

-Permanent situation

-Repeated actions/ regular actions.

( subject +1)

-Facts/ generally accepted truth/universally truth

- Instructions/directions

- stories, films, books and plays

 

Time Markers

-(usually, often, every( week/month/day,) sometimes, always

-On the engineering faculty, over 2/3 of teachers are men

- Present simple can be used for future

(The train leaves at 5 PM in the evening)

 

Simple past

-Action which are finished

-repeated task

Used to +v1

 

Future

S+will+v1

-prediction base on past experience

 

 

Present continuous

S+is/am/are+ing

-action is not finished?

 ( the price of petrol is substantial rising.

 

 

Past Continuous

-Background scene  to an action or event

S+ was, were,+ ing

 

Future continuous

 

Future action

S+will be+ v+ing