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The tense system of the English language may be a source of difficulty for ESL learners. The English language considers three periods of time (past, present, future), and 4 sub categories under each period of time (simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous). This unit provides the theoretical explanation of the Present Simple, Continuous, Perfect and Perfect Continuous usage.
Present Simple is often used for: Habitual or routine actions, Permanent situations and facts, Commentaries, Directions and instructions, Newspaper headlines, Present stories, Historical sequence
Present Continuous: To talk about an action that is in progress at the time of speaking, To talk about a temporary action that is not necessarily in progress at the time of speaking, To emphasize very frequent actions (often with always), Background events in a present story, To describe developing situations, To refer to a regular action around a point of time
Present Perfect: When we talk about finished actions/states that happened at an indefinite time. It refers to general experience without specific detail, When we are thinking about completed past actions carried out in an unfinished time period at the time of speaking, When we talk about something which began in the past and is still true now, at the time of speaking. We don't know if this is likely to continue or not, When we describe past actions with present results.
Present Perfect Continuous: To communicate an incomplete and ongoing activity, when we want to say how long it has continued, To describe a recently finished, uninterrupted activity which has a present result.
