12 types of tenses with examples and formula
| Tense | Affirmative |
| Present Simple | I have a car. |
| Present Continuous | You are playing football now. |
| Present Perfect | They have been there. |
| Present Perfect Continuous | I have been living here. |
| Past Simple | I lived in London. |
| Past Continuous | I was playing. |
| Past perfect | He had worked. |
| Past Perfect Continuous | I had been watching. |
| Future Simple | I will come. |
| Future Continuous | I will be playing basketball. |
| Future Perfect | He will have finished. |
| Future Perfect Continuous | We will have been starting. |
| Tense | Negative |
| Present Simple | I don’t have a car. |
| Present Continuous | You are not playing football now. |
| Present Perfect | They haven’t been there. |
| Present Perfect Continuous | I haven’t been living here. |
| Past Simple | I didn’t live in London. |
| Past Continuous | I wasn’t playing. |
| Past perfect | He had not worked. |
| Past Perfect Continuous | I had not been watching. |
| Future Simple | I will not come. |
| Future Continuous | I won’t be playing basketball. |
| Future Perfect | He will not have finished. |
| Future Perfect Continuous | We will not have been starting. |
| Tense | Interrogative |
| Present Simple | Do I have a car? |
| Present Continuous | Are you playing football now? |
| Present Perfect | Have they been there? |
| Present Perfect Continuous | Have they been living here? |
| Past Simple | Did I live in London? |
| Past Continuous | Was I playing? |
| Past perfect | Had he worked? |
| Past Perfect Continuous | Had I been watching? |
| Future Simple | Will I come in? |
| Future Continuous | Will I be playing basketball? |
| Future Perfect | Will he have finished? |
| Future Perfect Continuous | Will we have been starting? |
