Tenses and Actions

nd actions

Tenses and actions | |

|Tense |Example |Explanation |

| Present simple |I play football every week. |Here you want to say that it happens regularly. |

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|Present continuous|I'm playing football now. |Here you want to say that it is happening at the moment. |

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| Past simple |I played football yesterday. |You did it yesterday, it happened in the past., the action is |

| | |finished. |

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|Past continuous |I was playing football the whole |You were doing it in the past. It's not sure whether the action was|

| |evening. |finished or not. |

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|Present Perfect |I have just played football. |You have just finished it. So it has a connection to the present. |

| | |Maybe your clothes are dirty. |

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|Present Perfect |I have been playing football for 2 |You want to say how long you have been doing it. (You started in |...