2. FINISHED
COMPLETED
Present tense expresses action, activity
and state of being completed/finished

3. Simple Past is used to denote the
action, activity has been completed. It does not
indicate, when was the activity completed

4. Past Present Future
Duration from the past until now
I ate salad
Look! It has been snowing.

5. I drank water
Past Present Future
Duration from the past until now
Look! It has been snowing.

6. I ran yesterday
Past Present Future
Duration from the past until now
Look! It has been snowing.

7. Usage…
To express an activity completed in the past
I ran yesterday
Ramesh has left for school
She has slept

8. Usage…
To express past habits
She always carried a pepper spray
He ran for two hours daily
Rohit practiced boxing everyday

9. Past Perfect indicates
Completion Of Action/Activity
before another action in the past. It
can also be used to indicate Completion of
an Activity/Action before a
specific time in the past

10. Past Present Future
Duration from the past until now
Look! It has been snowing.
I had visited Guwahati in 1996

11. Past Present Future
Duration from the past until now
her
Ithas been
She felt so happy after buying the house
Look! father had owned as a kid
snowing.

12. Usage…
To express an action which was completed
before a certain moment in the past
I had met Vijay five years back
It had stopped raining two hours back
Ritu had finished her lunch earlier

13. Usage…
When two actions happened in the past, to show
which happened earlier than the other.
I read the report before the meeting had
started
Shuchi had written the mail before she got the
news
Prakash had finished his lunch before his boss
arrived

14. Past Continuous is used to
show an ongoing activity in the
past.

15. Past Present Future
Duration from the past until now
Look! It has been snowing.
The baby was sleeping

16. Past Present Future
Duration from the past until now
Look! It has been snowing.
It was raining

17. Past Present Future
Duration from the past until now
Look! It has been snowing.
She was studying

18. Usage…
To talk about an action happening at some point
in the past. The time of the action may or may not
be denoted
The husband & wife were watching a movie
It was getting colder
We were driving all night

19. Usage…
Used with always, continually to indicate
persistent habits in the past
Narender was always complaining
He was always running late

20. Past Perfect
Continuous is used to indicate
Activity which started in the
past and finished in the past.
Used to indicate the duration of the activity/action

21. Past Present Future
Duration from the past until now
The baby had been sleeping
Look! It has been
for 3 hours snowing.

22. Past Present Future
Duration from the past until now
It had been raining for 5 hours
Look! It has been snowing.

23. Past Present Future
Duration from the past until now
Look! It has been snowing.
She had been studying for the last 2 hours

24. Usage…
To express an action which began in the past &
continued till that time -
Nitin had been attending the course for 3
months
Sangeeta had been teaching for 5 years before
Tanu joined