✏️ Grammar

Tenses Review

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📖 Tenses Review

Tense	Use	Example
Present Simple	Habits, facts	"I study every day."
Present Continuous	Action in progress	"I am studying now."
Present Perfect	Past → Present	"I have studied English."
Past Simple	Finished action	"I studied yesterday."
Past Continuous	Action in progress (past)	"I was studying when..."
Future Simple	Future action	"I will study tomorrow."

📌 Key Words

Present: every day, always, often, now
Past: yesterday, last week, ago, in 2020
Future: tomorrow, next week, in 2025
Perfect: already, yet, just, ever, never

✏️ Practice

Choose the correct tense

1. She (study) every day.

2. I (read) a book now.

3. They (go) to the cinema yesterday.

4. We (visit) Paris next year.

5. I (already finish) my homework.

MathMaroc · Learning guide

Tenses: build a timeline before choosing a form

Original practice material · explained answers · no official-exam attribution

Understand the rule

The present simple describes habits and general facts; the present continuous describes an activity in progress or a temporary situation. The past simple presents a finished past event, while the past continuous gives a background activity. The present perfect connects an experience or result to the present and is not normally used with a finished time such as yesterday. The past perfect places an event before another past event. Will can express a prediction or a decision made now; going to often expresses a prior intention or prediction based on evidence. Context decides the best form.

Follow a method

Locate the reference time. Ask whether the event is completed, repeated or in progress. Compare it with any other event. Time markers help but do not replace meaning. After choosing a tense, check auxiliaries, subject agreement, negation and irregular forms.

Worked example

When Sara arrived, the discussion had already started. Arrival is the past reference point; the start happened earlier. Sara has attended three meetings this month connects a number of experiences to a period that may still be continuing. Sara attended a meeting yesterday describes a finished past event.

Practise and explain your answer

01Complete: While I ___ (read), my friend called.

was reading — an activity in progress interrupted by a past event.

02Complete: She ___ (visit) Rabat yesterday.

visited — yesterday is a finished past time.

03Complete: By the time we arrived, the film ___ (begin).

had begun — beginning occurred before arrival.

04Explain the error: I have seen him yesterday.

Use I saw him yesterday. A finished time normally requires the past simple.

05Write a habit and a current temporary activity.

Example: I study English every evening. This week, I am preparing a presentation.