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Present and Past Tenses

Verb Forms

Present Present continuous	Mark is ready to go home. Mark is waiting for the bus.
Present simple	Bruno barks everyday when Mark comes home.
Present perfect	Yuko has gone to Montreal for the weekend.
Present Perfect Continuous	Hyun has been studying aeronautics for a year.
Past Simple	Hide missed class last week because he was sick.
Past Continuous	The class was laughing while they were watching the TV comedy "Friends".
Past Perfect	The students had decided to start working on pronunciation when they realized they might not be understood.
Past Perfect Continuous	After they had been working on pronunciation for a week, they noticed that people understood them much better.