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Simple Tenses

	Present	Past	Future	Conditional
Active	I help him	They told lies	She will find it	They would take the keys
Passive	He is helped	Lies were told	It will be found	The keys would be taken

 

Perfect Tenses

	Present perfect	Past perfect	Future perfect	Conditional perfect
Active	They have eaten all	We had written it	They will have read it	He would have finish the job
Passive	All has been eaten	It had been written	It will have been read	It would have been finished

 

Progressive Tenses

	Present continuous	Past continuous	Pres. perfect contin.	Past perfect contin.	Future contin.
Active	They are watching it	We were following him	They have been stealing	He had been searching	I'll be making it
Passive	It is being watched	He was being followed	*	*	*

 

Other Tenses

	Infinitive	Perfect infinitive	Gerund	Imperative
Active	To continue	To have loved	Telling	Take a seat!
Passive	To be continued	To have been loved	Being told	Please be seated !

 

Modal Verbs

	can/could	must	should	may/might
Active	You can eat it	You must shut it	They shouldn't do it	I may break it
Passive	It can be eaten	It must be shut	It shouldn't be done	It may be broken

 

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