Tiempos Verbales Ingles

USES COMPARISON
|Present Simple |Present Continuous |
|Routines / Habits : Maria smokes |Actions happening NOW: Maria is smoking |
|Permanent Actions: Pedro lives in Sevilla |Temporary actions: Juan is staying at the Marriot hotel.|
|Current facts/truths: I have two brothers | |


Simple Past – Present Perfect Simple

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|[pic] |The present perfect is used when the time period has NOT finished: |[pic]I have seen three movies this week. |
| ||(This week has not finished yet.) |
|[pic] |The simple past is used when the time period HAS finished: |[pic]I saw three movies last week. |
| | |(Last week has finished.) |
|[pic] |The present perfect is often used when giving recent news:|[pic]Martin has crashed his car again. |
| | |(This is new information.) |
|[pic] |The simple past is used when giving older information: |[pic]Martin crashed his car last year. |
| ||(This is old information.) |
|[pic] |The present perfect is used when the time is not specific: |[pic]I have seen that movie already. |
| | |(We don't know when.) |
|[pic] |The simple past is used when the time isclear: |[pic]I saw that movie on Thursday. |
| | |(We know exactly when.) |
|[pic] |The present perfect is used with for and since, when the actions have not |[pic]I have lived in Victoria for five |
| |finished yet:|years. |
| | |(I still live in Victoria.) |
|[pic] |The simple past is used with for and since, when the actions have already |[pic]I lived in Victoria for five years. |
| |finished:|(I don't live in Victoria now.) |


Form

|Simple Past |Present Perfect Simple |
|irregular verbs: see 2nd column of irregular verbs |irregular verbs: form of 'have' + 3rd column of irregularverbs |
|Example: |Example: |
|I spoke |I / you / we / they have spoken |
||he / she / it has spoken |
| | |
|regular verbs: infinitive + ed |regular verbs: form of 'have' + infinitive + ed |
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