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 |
|---|---|
| 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.