12. The Future Perfect Continuous Tense

I will have been playing We will have been playing

You will have been playing You will have been playing

He/She/It will have been playing They will have been playing

When you are using the Future Perfect Continuous Tense in speaking or informal writing you may contract the subject and the first auxiliary verb:-

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11. The Present Perfect Continuous Tense

I have been sitting We have been sitting

You have been sitting You have been sitting

He/She/It has been sitting They have been sitting

When you are using the Present Perfect Continuous Tense in speaking or informal writing you may contract the subject and the first auxiliary verb:-

For example: I’ve, We’ve, You’ve, He’s, She’s, It’s, They’ve or Tony’s.

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10. The Past Perfect Continuous Tense

I had been working We had been working

You had been working You had been working

He/She/It had been working They had been working

The past perfect continuous tense is quite like the past perfect tense except it expresses longer actions in the past before another action in the past.
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9. The Future Perfect Tense

I shall have written We shall have written

You will have written You will have written

He/She/It will have written They will have written

Look at this sentence:-

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8. The Present Perfect Tense

I have seen We have seen

You have seen You have seen

He/She/It has seen They have seen

Look at the following sentences:-

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7. The Past Perfect Tense

I had seen We had seen

You had seen You had seen

He/She/It had seen They had seen

Look at this sentence:-

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6. The Future Continuous Tense

Just as the Present Continuous Tense is used as a definite immediate future, so the Future Continuous is used as a definite but not-so- immediate future.

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5. The Present Continuous Tense

When you wish to say that something is happening now or at this moment, you should use the Present Continuous Tense.

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4. The Past Continuous Tense

The Past Continuous Tense is used when we wish to speak of an action which is unfinished at some time in the past.

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“Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

— Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

What is Tense?

Let’s look at tenses in a simplicity format by the timing of:-

“Past” - “Present” - “Future”

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