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Yes I Can

This document provides examples of how to use different verb tenses in English, including the simple present, present progressive, and simple past tenses. It gives signal words commonly used with each tense, the forms verbs take in each tense, and examples of affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences for each tense.

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Yes I Can

This document provides examples of how to use different verb tenses in English, including the simple present, present progressive, and simple past tenses. It gives signal words commonly used with each tense, the forms verbs take in each tense, and examples of affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences for each tense.

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Examples Examples Examples


Tense Signal words Use Form
affirmative negative interrogative
every day

sometimes
something happens repeatedly
always how often something happens I work. I don't work. Do I work?
one action follows another
infinitive
often things in general He works. He doesn't work. Does he work?
Simple with verbs like (to love, to
Present hate, to think, etc.) he/she/it:
usually I go. I don't go. Do I go?
future meaning: timetables, infinitive + s
programmes
seldom He goes. He doesn't go. Does he go?

never

first ... then

now something is happening at the I'm working. I'm not working. Am I working?
same time of speaking or
around it
at the moment He's working. He isn't working. Is he working?
Present future meaning: when you be (am/are/is) +
Progressive have already decided and infinitive + ing
Look! arranged to do it (a fixed I'm going. I'm not going. Am I going?
plan, date)
Listen! He's going. He isn't going. Is he going?

last ... I worked. I didn't work. Did I work?


regular:
action took place in the past, infinitive + ed
... ago He worked. He didn't work. Did he work?
Simple mostly connected with an
Past expression of time (no connection irregular:
in 1990 to the present) I went. I didn't go. Did I go?
(2nd column of table
of irregular verbs)
yesterday He went. He didn't go. Did he go?

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