Tense Functions (PrS to PrPC)

Which would you use to express completed actions when the specific time or date is unimportant and unmentioned?

• Present Perfect Simple

• Past Continuous

• Past Simple

• be + going to + base form

• Present Perfect Continuous

Which would you use to express an imminent event? (Imminent means just about to happen.) Usually some evidence, apparent to our senses, makes us believe it’s about to happen.

• Present Continuous

• Present Simple

• Future Simple (will + base form)

• be + going to + base form

• Present Perfect Simple

Which two forms could you use when predicting something that isn’t necessarily imminent?

• Present Simple

• Future Simple (will + base form)

• be + going to + base form

• Present Continuous

• Present Perfect

Which form are native speakers most likely to use when making a promise?

• Present Perfect

• be + going to + base form

• Present Continuous

• Future Simple (will + base form)

• Present Simple

Which would you use when expressing something that’s true around now, even if it’s not in progress at this very moment?

• Present Simple

• Present Perfect Continuous

• Past Continuous

• Present Continuous

• Past Simple

Which would you use when expressing a situation, event, or action that is in progress temporarily?

• Past Simple

• Present Perfect

• Future Simple (will + base form)

• Past Continuous

• Present Continuous

Which could you use to express something that interrupts something in progress during a finished time period?

• Present Simple

• Past Simple

• Present Continuous

• Present Perfect

• Present Perfect Continuous

Which might we use to express something in progress during a finished time period or at a particular moment in the past?

• Present Perfect Continuous

• Present Continuous

• Past Continuous

• Future Simple (will + base form)

• Past Simple

Which would you use to express a completed action or event that occurred during a finished time period?

• Present Continuous

• Present Perfect

• Past Simple

• be + going to + base form

• Past Continuous

Which would you use to express a future action or event that has been partly or fully arranged?

• Past Continuous

• Present Continuous

• Present Perfect

• Future Simple (will + base form)

• Past Simple