12 Tenses : Tense of the verb indicates the time of the action of the verb.

There are 12 Tenses. Here are those tenses.

1.Simple Present Tense :

I eat an apple.

He eats an apple.

2. Simple Past Tense :

I ate an apple.

He ate an apple.

3. Simple Future Tense :

I shall eat an apple.

He will eat an apple.

4. Present Continuous Tense :

I am eating an apple.

We are eating apple.

He was eating an apple.

5. Past Continuous Tense :

I was eating an apple.

We were eating apple.

He was eating an apple.

6. Future Continuous Tense :

I shall be eating an apple.

He will be eating an apple.

7. Present perfect tense :

I have eaten an apple.

He has eaten an apple.

8. Past perfect tense :

I had eaten an apple.

He had eaten an apple.

9. Future perfect tense :

I shall have eaten an apple.

He will have eaten an apple.

10. Present Perfect Continuous Tense :

I have been eating an apple.

11. Past Perfect Continuous Tense :

I had been eating an apple.

12. Future Perfect Continuous Tense :

I shall have been eating an apple. Tense Index

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