English Verb Tenses: Usage and Examples
English Verb Tenses
Used to
Past habits (repeated actions)
I used to go dancing every weekend.
Past situations (no longer true)
I used to be blond when I was a child.
Forms:
- Positive: He used to play football.
- Negative: He didn’t use to play football.
- Question: Did he use to play football?
Usually
Present actions (habitual)
I usually have a salad for dinner.
I usually go to school by bus.
Past Simple
- Affirmative: Subject + Verb+ed (I watched a movie yesterday)
- Negative: Subject + didn’t + Verb (She didn’t
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Advantages of Starting a Business
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- Passion:
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Here are some practical tips to help you manage stress-related food cravings:
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To begin with, at night, there was a signalman inside his room next to the railway when he began to hear a man who was above him on a path. The signalman was scared because he thought that the man was a ghost. So, they were speaking about why he was there. The signalman met with the other man the following night to explain because he thought that he was a ghost.
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Josep Tous School – Barcelona
English Department / 2nd ESO
Teacher: Marga Alegre
Present Continuous Tense
Uses:
- To express something that we are doing or is happening now.
- We are studying English now.
- To express something that we are doing or is happening for a period of time.
- We are staying at my grandparents’ house for a month.
- To express a future arrangement (things that are planned in our diary).
- My class is going on a school trip on the 22nd of December.
Structure:
- ( + ) Subject + VERB to be (PRESENT)
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