The Complete Guide to English Tenses with Infographics

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The tenses (different grammar for time) in English can be a little difficult to understand. Here is a complete guide to all 12 major verb tenses in the English language, and conditional sentences. Each verb tense has Infographics and examples to help you understand how the verbs are changed in that tense, and which time each tense is for. There are also examples of the different ways that tense can be used.

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When Do I Use the Past Perfect?

1.       When you want to show that an event in the past happened before a second event in the past. The second event is usually written in the past simple.

  • I hadn’t eaten a large meal, so I was hungry for dessert!

  • The car had stopped running, so I walked the last mile

  • When Kathy arrived at the church, had the wedding already started?