Which word or phrase means: to talk about continuous actions or situations which happened before a specific time in the past?
4A Grammar Continuous and perfect tenses
Identity · Advanced English
Subunit questions
Future Perfect Continuous
Past Perfect Continuous
Present Continuous with always
Present Continuous
Which word or phrase means: to talk about an action that will be completed before a particular time in the future?
Past Perfect Continuous
Future Perfect Continuous
Future Perfect Simple
Present Continuous with always
Which word or phrase means: to talk about something continuing up to a certain point in the future?
Future Perfect Continuous
Present Continuous with always
Present Continuous
Past Continuous
Which word or phrase means: actions or activities in progress at a specific time in the past?
Past Continuous
Future Continuous
Present Perfect Simple
Past Perfect Simple
Which word or phrase means: completed past actions that happened at an unspecified time?
Past Perfect Simple
Present Perfect Continuous
Present Perfect Simple
Future Perfect Simple
Which word or phrase means: actions or states that happened before a specific past time?
Present Perfect Continuous
Future Perfect Simple
Past Perfect Continuous
Past Perfect Simple
Which word or phrase means: actions that began in the past and continue to the present?
Present Perfect Continuous
Future Perfect Simple
Past Perfect Continuous
Future Perfect Continuous
Which word or phrase means: to predict something in progress at a point in the future?
Present Perfect Simple
Future Continuous
Past Perfect Simple
Present Perfect Continuous
Which word or phrase means: actions in progress at the time of speaking?
Past Continuous
Present Continuous
Future Continuous
Present Perfect Simple
A preview of “4A Grammar Continuous and perfect tenses” from the unit “Identity” in Advanced English: 5 lesson sections, 10 definitions, 9 worked questions.
Source: NCCD, 4A Grammar: Continuous and perfect tenses (pp.10-11)
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