Simple tenses in English
The table below shows the comparison of simple teneses in English.
Past Simple | Present Simple | Future Simple |
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She wrote an email yesterday. | She writes an email every day. | She will write an email tomorrow. |
The activity happened at a specific moment in the past. | The activity happens (is repeated) at present time. | The activity will happen in the future. The future tense is described or suggested. |
expressions: last week, a month ago, in 2009, yesterday |
expressions: once a week, often, sometimes, from time to time, usually, always |
expressions: tomorrow, in the next two months, before she is twenty, next week, the day after tomorrow |