English Tenses – Grammatical Terms
The terms for the tenses in English Grammar vary according to reference book you use. In the following list you can see which terms mean the same.
Terms for Tenses | Examples |
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| I watch television every day. |
| I‘m watching television at the moment. |
| I watched television last night. |
| I was watching television the whole evening. |
| I have just watched television. |
| I have been watching television for 5 hours. |
| I had a headache because I had watched television too much. |
| I had been watching television when Susan arrived. |
| I will watch television tomorrow night. |
| I‘m going to watch television this afternoon. |
| I will be watching television on Saturday night. |
| I will have watched television by tomorrow. |
| I will have been watching television for 6 hours by midnight. |
* Sometimes the word TENSE is added to other terms in this table as well.
** Sometimes the short name without Simple is used.