Verb Tenses and Agreement

4 Past Tenses and When to Use Them tenses The main tenses found in many languages include the past, present, and future Some languages have only two distinct tenses, such as past and nonpast, or future tenses Tenses are used to indicate when an action takes place They help us understand whether an action happened in the past, is happening in the present or will

tenses Tense Signal words Use Form Would he have been going? We sometimes use Continuous instead of Progressive Some signal words can be found in more tenses