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Grammatical tenses
tense name	Simple	Continuous	Perfect	Perfect Continuous
Past	Paul went to school yesterday.	Mary was reading all day yesterday.	He had washed up, before I came back.	I had been living in London, before I came to live in Cracow.
Present	I live in New York.	I am reading now.	I have lived in New York since 1998.	I have been working all day.
Future	I will work tomorrow.	Susan will be flying to London at that time tomorrow.	I will have written this report by five.	Carl will have been writing essays for five years by then.

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