Задание

Match the tenses with their areas of using.

  • Группы
    • The Present Simple Tense
    • The Present Continuous Tense
    • The Present Perfect Tense
    • The Present Perfect Continuous Tense
  • Варианты
    • daily routines/repeated actions \(especially with adverbs of frequency: often, usually, always, sometimes, etc\.\)
    • habits
    • permanent states
    • permanent states
    • general truths and laws of nature
    • actions happening now, at the moment of speaking or around the time of speaking
    • fixed arrangements in the near future, especially when we know the time and the place
    • temporary situations
    • changing or developing situations
    • frequently repeated actions with always, constantly, continually expressing annoyance or criticism
    • actions which started in the past and continue up to the present especially with stative verbs such as be, have, like, know, believe, understand
    • a past action which has a visible result in the present
    • actions which happened at an unstated time in the past
    • with today, this morning/afternoon/week, so far, etc when these periods of time are not finished at the time of speaking
    • recently completed actions
    • personal experiences/changes which have happened
    • emphasis on the duration of an action which started in the past and continues up to the present
    • action that started in the past and lasted for some time \(it may still be continuing, or have finished, but it has left a visible result in the present\)