Tenses

• Infinitiv + ed

• talk about an action that happend in the past.

Bsp:

• I studied yesterday

  
  

• Talking about an Action that continued over a period of time in the past

• was/were + Present Participle ( Infinitiv + ing)

• I was studying when the phone rang

  
  

  
  

• Is used to provide context to another action in the past but the past perfect comes always beforehand

  
  

• had + past participle (3. Verbform)

• Sarah had already left by the time he got home

Signalwords:

• already, just

• Never, not yet

• Once, until that day

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• Almost always used to give context but described an action which continued over time but stoped in the moment of another action

• had + been + Present Participle (Infinitiv + ing)

• Use this tense when talking about facts, habits and schedules

• Infinity

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• used to describe actions that happening right now

• Is / are + Present Participle ( Infinitiv + ing)

• used when talking about an action from the past describes the subject now. Often used for talkin about someone’s experience or lack of experience

• Or for something startet in the past and continuous

• have/has + Past Participle (3. Verbform)

• used to talk about an action that startet in the past and continous non stop into the present

• Have/has + been + Present Participle (verb+ing)

• used to talk about an action that we believe to happen in the future

• Will + Infinitiv

• used to talk about an action that we believe will continue over a Periode of time in the future

• Will be + Present Participle (Infinitiv + ing)

• used to talk about actions that will be finished by a certain time in the future

• Will have + Past Participle (3. Verbform)

• used to talk about a continuous action that will be finished at a given time in the future

• Espaccilay used to emphasise the duration of a action

• Will have been + Present Participle (Verb + ing)