How to remember tenses?

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Hi everyone, How many kind of TENSES are available in English language? Also is there any method about how to remember / memorize these TENSES? Thank you very much in advance Huygen

Goodman · Accepted Answer

Huygen,

By reading your post, something tells me that your English level should be beyond the question you just asked, and able to categorize the tenses already.

There are 3 basic tenses: Simple past – present – future

There are past progressive- present progressive- future progressive.

Then there past perfect- present perfect –future perfect which is not commonly used.

I am curious, may be I am missing something. Why do you have to memorize the tenses?

You are walking – you are doing something at this minute. So it’s present progressive

I walk 2 miles everyday after work. Simple present, used to reflect a routine.

They were watching TV when you called last night.- Simple past progressive.

The perfect tenses are more complex and you may have to do some reading and studying on your own.

Here is something which may be helpful: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html

CalifJim · Answer

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Anonymous · Answer

May be you can read this:
http:// belajar-english.com/2012/07/cara-termudah-memahami-tensis/

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