When you’re learning the English language, you may feel overwhelmed when it comes to all the different grammar components. There are so many variables that affect the choice of words, even in everyday conversations.
Future Perfect Tense is used to express an action which, the speaker assumes, will have completed or occurred in the future. It gives a sense of completion of a task that will happen in the future.
The past perfect progressive (also called past perfect continuous) is a verb tense which is used to show that an action started in the past and continued up to another point in the past.
The past perfect refers to an event that was completed at some point in the past before something else happened. It is formed by combining the auxiliary verb had with the past participle of the main verb.
The present perfect continuous is used to refer to an unspecified time between 'before now' and 'now'. The speaker is thinking about something that started but perhaps did not finish in that period of time. He/she is interested in the process as well as the result, and this process may still be going on, or may have just finished.
The present perfect is used to indicate a link between the present and the past. The time of the action is before now but not specified, and we are often more interested in the result than in the action itself.
The present continuous is used when we say what we have planned and arranged to do at a specific time in the future. These are fixed plans with definite time and/or place.
The future progressive tense indicates an action that will occur over a period of time at some point in the future. It expresses events that will last for a duration of time at some point in the future. It is also called the future continuous tense. The future progressive tense is also used in the future perfect progressive.
The simple future is a verb tense that's used to talk about things that haven't happened yet. Use the simple future to talk about an action or condition that will begin and end in the future.
The past progressive , also called past continuous, is used to refer to an action that was continuous (i.e. an action that was going on) at a particular time in the past.
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