English Tense Table

This is one of the various tips and tricks to learn and improve English Language skill easily.

This table helps to learn and remember the tense structures along with their passive forms. Notice the text colour, used to signify the differences and similarities in various forms. Knowledge in this table is equivalent to many pages of English grammar.

	PRESENT	PAST	FUTURE
Simple	I do it. It is done by me.	I did it. It was done by me.	I shall do it. It will be done by me.
Continuous	I am doing it. It is being done by me.	I was doing it. It was being done by me.	I shall be doing it. It will be being done by me.
Perfect	I have done it. It has been done by me.	I had done it. It had been done by me.	I shall have done it. It will have been done by me.
Perfect Continuous	I have been doing it. It has been being done by me.	I had been doing it. It had been being done by me.	I shall have been doing it. It will have been being done by me.