English tenses
English has 12 tenses: three times (present, past, future) times four aspects (simple, continuous, perfect, perfect continuous). Each page has the formula, when to use it, time words, a common mistake and examples.
Which tenses do people actually use? We counted 584,000 verbs in YouTube videos.
Present
Past
Future
- FuSFuture Simple
- FuCFuture Continuous
- FuPFuture Perfect
- FuPCFuture Perfect Continuous
- going tobe going to
Not a tense
Hear them in videos
See it in real speech. Paste any YouTube link into Tense Lens and every tense in the video is highlighted as it is spoken, with a map of where each one appears.