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In this unit I learned that the three tenses of English (past, present, and future) each have four different aspects (simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous) to them. This unit focuses on the four aspects of the present tense.
The present simple tense can be used, among other ways, to describe things we do every day. It takes the form of a subject + the base form of a verb + an object. An example sentence would be, "I drive to work." Negatives and questions are made with "do" and "does": "I do not work" and " Where does he work?" for example.
The present continuous tense is used to talk about things that are happening at the moment of speaking. It takes the form of a subject + is / am / are + -ing form. An example sentence would be, "The sun is shining." Questions are made by putting the auxiliary verb before the subject: "Is the sun shining?" for example.
A funny thing about the present tense, I found, is that it's used to talk about the past and future as well. For example, the present perfect tense is used to talk about past events that are in some way connected or related to the present. For instance, take the sentence "I have visited Disneyland." This shows you are speaking in the present about something that happened in the past. Questions are formed by putting the auxiliary verb before the subject: "Have you visited Disneyland?" What's more the present perfect continuous tense is used to talk about something that started in the past and has continued up to the present. For example, "I have been working on this test for half an hour." As this shows, the present perfect continuous tense is commonly used with the time expressions "for" and "since".
