Will - other uses

Will - other uses

Older textbooks often refer to 'will' as 'the future tense' and this has confused a lot of learners.

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future

Going to

Will - future

Going to or will?

Present forms for the future

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Differences between past tenses

Differences between past tenses

We can use the past simple to talk about actions and states which we see as completed in the past.

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Past perfect continuous

Past perfect continuous

We use the past perfect continuous to look back at a situation in progress.

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Past Perfect

Past perfect

We use the past perfect simple to talk about what happened before a point in the past. It looks back from a point in the past to further in the past.

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Past Simple Or Present perfect Simple ?

Past Simple Or Present perfect Simple ?

(Remember that British and American English have different rules for the use of the present perfect. The comments and the exercises here refer to correct grammar for British English. In American English, it is often considered acceptable to use the past simple in some of these examples.)

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Present perfect simple or continuous?

Present perfect simple or continuous?

Often there is very little difference between the present perfect simple and the present perfect continuous. In many cases, both are equally acceptable.

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Present Perfect Continuous

Present perfect continuous

This tense is used to talk about an action or actions that started in the past and continued until recently or that continue into the future:

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Present Perfect

Present perfect

(Please note that British and American English have different rules for the use of this tense. The explanation and exercises here refer to British English. In American English, it is often acceptable to use the past simple in some of these examples.)

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Pas Continuous

Past continuous

We use the past simple to talk about actions and states which we see as completed in the past.

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