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✨Present Simple – Present Continuous

Present simple ⇨ for facts, permanent states, regularly occurring actions, and narrative
form for stories that happen in the present.
Present continuous⇨ expresses actions that are currently in progress at the moment of
speaking.

I normally drive to work but today I’m taking the bus.

✿Present Simple – Present Perfect Continuous


Present simple⇨ for general statements and actions that take place regularly in the
present. Keywords: every day/month, once/twice, X times…
Present perfect continuous⇨ to express the duration of an action that started in the past
and continues into the present. Keywords: FOR, SINCE, HOW LONG

I live in London. I have been living here for 3 years.

🌙Present Perfect – Present Perfect Continuous


The present perfect simple and the present perfect continuous both connect the past to the
present.
Present perfect simple⇨ tells us whether or not something happened up to now. It
focuses on the result of the action.
Present perfect continuous⇨ tells us how long an action has been in progress up to now.
It focuses on the duration of the action.

I have already done my homework.


I have been doing my homework for two hours.

Past Simple - Past Continuous


Both are used to express actions in the past, however each has a different function.
Past simple⇨ to describe actions that take place one after another, to describe an action
that interrupts a second action, to talk about completed actions.
Past continuous⇨ expresses the background situation that was already in progress, to
describe two actions that are taking place simultaneously, to set the scene/describe an
action already in progress in the past.

I was doing my homework when my friends came to see me.


🪐Simple Past – Present Perfect Simple
Past simle⇨ tells us when an action happened and is used with specific time markers, to
express past experiences with a specific time marker (we know when), to ask when or what
time something happened in the past, to express completed actions far back in the past,
refer to actions that occurred in a finished time period, talk about the duration of actions that
started and finished in the past.
Present perfect simple⇨ only tells us whether or not an action occurred up to now, to
express past experiences without a specific time marker (we don’t know when), to ask
whether or not or how often something happened up to now (with ever, yet, how
much/many), begin a conversation or announce new information, express recently
completed actions (with just), refer to actions that occurred in an unfinished time period, talk
about the duration of something that began in the past and is still ongoing at the time of
speaking.

He travelled to New York last week.


I have travelled to New York several times. (we don’t know when)

♫Simple Past – Past Perfect


Both express completed actions that took place in the past.
Past simple⇨ expresses sequential past actions that happened one after another.
Past perfect⇨ looks further back and indicates what happened before an action in the
simple past, so for actions and events that happened prior to a certain point or event in the
past.

The teacher corrected the tests that we had written.

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