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hello and welcome everyone this is minoo
at anglerlink
today i'm going to review all the
english tenses with you
as you will remember in our first nine
lessons in the series learn the english
tenses
each time we took two or three different
tenses and looked at the formulation and
usage of those in detail today we're
going to take all the tenses and review
the usage of each one of them
at the end of this lesson there will be
a link to another video where i have
prepared some exercises for you these
exercises are going to be quite
challenging but also a lot of fun where
you will have to choose the correct
tense among
all the tenses that you will review with
me in this lesson
so when you're ready we can begin with
our review of all the english tenses
all english tenses
as you know i have explained the
different english tenses to you in my
nine videos on tenses
in each video we have looked at the
formulation and usage in detail
in this lesson we're going to summarize
and review the usage of all these tenses
together
so just to remind you
in the first video we looked at
the difference between i do and i'm
doing
then we looked at the difference between
i'm doing
and i have been doing
in the third video we looked at i have
been doing
and i have done
and then we moved on to the difference
between i have done
and i did
in my fifth lesson we looked at action
verbs and state verbs
the sixth video was on future tenses we
looked at the difference between i will
do
and i am going to do
and in the following video we looked at
the difference between i am going to do
and i'm doing with a future time marker
in the eighth video we looked at all the
past tenses
i was doing
i had done and i had been doing
and finally we looked at all the future
tenses
i will be doing
i will have done
and i will have been doing
so let's start our revision by looking
at
present simple
i do he does etc
as you will remember the present simple
tense indicates a fact a habit
or a regular action
let's look at some examples
a fact
she's an author
she writes books
a habit
she always writes in the morning
and the regular action
she writes two books a year
let's now look at present continuous i'm
doing
she's doing
we're doing etc
as you will remember the present
continuous talks about a temporary
action in progress at present
she is currently writing a new book
let's look at the timeline
the action is happening now
okay
moving on the next tense we looked at
was present perfect continuous
i've been doing
she's been doing etc
as you will remember
this is about an action that has already
started
and is still going on
let's look at the timeline and the
example together
she has been writing books
for over 20 years
you can also use the word since with
this tense for example
since she was eighteen
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she has been writing books since she was
eighteen
okay from present perfect continuous we
moved on to present perfect i have done
she has done etc
now you have to be careful with present
perfect
whether you're using it with an action
verb or a state verb
let's look at the usage of the present
perfect tense
with an action verb
when you use this tense with an action
verb like sit go
come dance
etc it indicates a completed action
but there is no time specified in the
past
the following expressions require this
tense
because they do not refer to a specific
time in the past
they mean sometime in the past
until now
so far
already
not yet
recently
just
ever
never
today until now
this year until now
in the last few years
in the past week
for example
she has already written 40 books
let's look at the timeline
the action is completed
without saying exactly when
it's completed before
now
which is the time of speaking
now looking at the present perfect tense
with state verbs
it's completely different
remember that a state verb doesn't take
a continuous tense
so
with the state verb the present perfect
has replaced the present perfect
continuous
which means that with state verbs the
present perfect
shows a state that continues from the
past to the present
for example
she has been a writer for 15 years
because we can't say she has been being
a writer for 15 years
or
i have known her since 2010
again because no is a state verb and we
cannot put it in the present perfect
continuous tense
so we switch it back to the present
perfect simple
i have known
but the timeline will look exactly like
the present perfect continuous tense
a state that started in the past
and continued
and is still correct at the present
moment
right moving on to the past simple i did
she did etc
remember that initially we contrasted
past simple with present perfect
because past simple is also a completed
action
but at a specified time in the past
any time expression that refers to a
specific time in the past requires this
tense
for example yesterday
last year
a week ago
when i was young
for example she wrote that novel many
years ago
let's look at the timeline
she wrote that novel
many years ago
or yesterday or two weeks ago
or when i was 10
you have a specified time in the past
okay moving on now to past continuous i
was doing we were doing etc
as you will remember
this is an action in progress in the
past either
when a shorter action took place
or
at a very precise moment
let's look at the timeline
she was writing that novel
when she became in
the next sense we looked at was the past
perfect
i had done we had done etc
and as you would remember that was about
a completed action in the past either
before another action took place
or
before a very precise moment
let's look at the timeline
she had written that novel
before she became ill
okay moving on to the next tense which
was past perfect continuous
i had been doing we had been doing etc
and as you remember this is an action
that had started
continued for some time and was still in
progress in the past
either before another action
or before a very precise moment
let's look at the timeline
she had been writing that novel for a
few months
when she became ill
ok moving on to future tenses now and
starting with future simple
as you will remember there are two main
usages
the first one is a decision at the time
of speaking and this is used mainly in
dialogues
and it's best to use the contracted for
for example
someone says
dan called earlier he wants you to call
him back
reacting to this sentence the listener
will say
okay
i'll call him as soon as i can
the second usage was for a possibility
in the future
and usually you need to include an
expression of possibility in your
sentence
for example
i will probably call him this afternoon
from future simple we moved on to the
going to form
i'm going to do she's going to do etc
and as you will remember there are also
two usages the first one is an action in
the future that has already been planned
by the speaker
for example
i'm going to call dan after lunch
the speaker has already decided what he
or she is going to do
this form is also used for something
that is certain to happen in the near
future
i know he's going to invite me out
the speaker is sure that this action is
going to happen
right then we contrasted going to with
present continuous with the future time
marker
i am doing something tomorrow
she's doing something next week etc
and as you will remember
this refers to a fixed arrangement for
the future
for example
dan has invited me out for dinner and
i've accepted his invitation
we have a date
so you should say
i'm having dinner with dan tonight
okay moving on to the next future tense
future continues i will be doing we will
be doing etc
as you will remember there are also two
usages for this tense
the main one refers to an action in
progress at a specific time in the
future
it's the equivalent of the present
continuous tense or the past continuous
tense
for example
will you be home at nine o'clock tonight
let's look at the timeline
no i will be having dinner with dan
at that time
the second usage of the future
continuous tense was replacing the going
to form for the future or the be doing
form for the future
for example
are you going to pay for the meal
yes i will be paying
because he paid last time
in this example
the future continuous tense will be
paying has replaced the
going to pay
which restaurant are you going to
we will be going to the mexican
restaurant
in this example
the future continuous will be going
has replaced
the present continuous for a future
arrangement are going
right then moving on to the next future
tense future perfect i will have done we
will have done etc
as you know this refers to an action
that will be completed in the future
either
before a specific moment
or
before another action takes place
let's look at the timeline
we will have left the restaurant
by midnight
and finally
future perfect continuous i will have
been doing we will have been doing etc
as you will remember this is an action
that will have started
will have continued for some time
and will still be in progress in the
future
either before a specific moment
or before another action takes place
let's look at the timeline
we will have been drinking
for a few hours
by the time we leave
right this brings us to the end of the
revision lesson
we have prepared
a video with exercises on mixed tenses
for you all you need to do now is to
click on this image to go and do the
exercises
thank you for watching i look forward to
seeing you in our next video
bye now