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 | Simple | Continuous | Perfect | Perfect Continuous | ||||||
| Present | обычное действие, регулярно повторяющееся; оно используется для планов, расписаний и распорядков | длительное действие. происходящее в данный момент; для действий в ближайшем будущем; в заранее спланированных и продуманных действиях в будущем | действие, которое произошло в прошлом и завершилось к настоящему моменту, нам важен его результат; совершённое только что или к моменту | длительное действие, которое началось в прошлом, продолжалось в течение некоторого периода до настоящего времени и всё ещё продолжается в настоящее время | ||||||
| every day (week, month, year), often, usually, seldom, sometimes, never, rarely, regularly, today, in the morning (afternoon, evening) | now, currently, at the moment, still | today, this morning (afternoon, evening), lately, ever, never, just, already, not…yet, by 3 p.m., recently, for, since, since of the last week (month, year) | since 3 p.m., for a long time, for a week (month, year), all day long today | |||||||
| He doesn’t now anything. The train leaves tomorrow in the evening. The doctor examines me at 2 o’clock on Monday. The head meets investors at noon. | I am reading a book now. We aren’t playing the piano at the moment. I am going to visit/ am visiting her on Tuesday. | We have bought a new TV set. He hasn’t phoned this afternoon. | I have been reading since 2 o’clock. I have lived here for three month. | |||||||
| + | V, V+s, V+es | + | am/is/are + V + ing | + | have/has + V + ed (+V3) | + | have/has+been+V+ing | |||
| - | do/does+not+V | - | am/is/are+not+V+ing | - | have/has+not+V+ed (+V3) | - | have/has+not+been+V+ing | |||
| ? | do/does … V | ? | inversion | ? | inversion | ? | inversion | |||
| Past | событие в прошлом; однократное событие в прошлом или регулярное действие в прошлом | длительное действие, происходившее в определённый момент в прошлом | действие, завершившееся до определённого момента в прошлом | длительное действие, которое продолжалось некоторый период времени в прошлом и закончилось к данному моменту в прошлом | ||||||
| yesterday, last week (month, year), long ago, the day before yesterday, the other day, in … | all day long yesterday, yesterday at 3 p.m., yesterday from 6 till 7, …when you came…, …while you went…, at 2 o’clock yesterday | yesterday by 3 p.m., before some time in the past, by the end of last week (month, year) | yesterday by 3 p.m., for some time in the past, until, for 2 hours before midnight | |||||||
| I ate frogs when I was in France. I didn’t take my key a minute ago. I went to work 6 days a week last year. I drank a glass of water. | I was writing a letter at 7 o’clock yesterday. They weren’t sleeping at 2 p.m. | I had written a letter by 7 o’clock. We hadn’t finished work by 5 a.m. | I had been writing a letter for 2 hours when he came. We had been working in the garden until it got dark. 
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| + | V+ed, V2 | + | was/were + V + ing | + | had + V + ed (+V3) | + | had+been+V+ing | |||
| - | did+not+V | - | was/were+not+V+ing | - | had + not + V + ed (+V3) | - | had+not+been+V+ing | |||
| ? | did…V | ? | inversion | ? | inversion | ? | inversion | |||
| Future | действие, относящееся к будущему; о спонтанных решениях, тех, которые Вы приняли в момент речи | длительное действие, которое будет происходит в определённый момент в будущем | действие, которое будет завершено до определённого момента в будущем | длительное действие, которое начавшись в будущем, будет продолжаться в течение некоторого периода времени до наступления другого, более позднего будущего действия или момента | ||||||
| think, expect, hope, believe, probably, tomorrow, next (week, month, year), in 2 days, the day after tomorrow, one of these days, soon | all day long tomorrow, tomorrow from 6 till 7, when you come, at 7 o’clock tomorrow, while you go | tomorrow by 3 p.m., by the end of next week (month, year), by some time in future, by noon, before… | tomorrow since 3 p.m., for some time in the future, for three hours already by 2 p.m., for hours before midnight | |||||||
| Tomorrow I will go to the sea. They won’t come next month. | I will be writing a letter at 7 o’clock. They won’t be playing football from 2 till 3 p.m. tomorrow. On Sunday morning while Anna is cleaning the flat, Jake will be washing the car. | I will have written the letter by 7 p.m. I won’t have written the letter by 7 o’clock. | You will have been studying English for five years by the next spring. We will have been painting the roof for three hours already by 2 p.m. 
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| + | will+V | + | (shall)will+be+V+ing | + | will+have+V+ed (+V3) | + | will+have+been+V+ing | |||
| - | will not(won’t)+V | - | will not(won’t)+V+ing | - | will not(won’t)+ have+V+ed(+V3) | - | will not(won’t)+ have+been+V+ing | |||
| ? | will…V | ? | inversion | ? | inversion | ? | inversion | |||

 
  
                                    	
                        