I had been going out with someone for ten years. No! I promised my mother I wouldn't get married until Surely that's long enough for us to get to know Let's get married! By the end of December we' ll have been going outįor five years. If the stock market keeps rising, I'll have doubled my

Slave in the office while I' ll be lying on a sunny beach! Just think! Next week you' ll be working like a When I finally saw him I had been looking for him for hours. The robber had already escaped in a get-away car. He still hasn't said anything about it, but I'll stay at work late today just in Out of Seibu yesterday afternoon when I bumped into my boss! I don't know Yesterday, as it's her birthday tomorrow. I can't see theįor three months now, and all I 've done is lose money. I have never bought brand name clothing in my life.

Look! There 's David in that Armani shop! He 's buyinga suit! I thought he Which is underlined, you will be shown an explanation.īuyanything for his father on Fathers' Day because he doesn't know when it Verbs in the different tenses and try and decide why they take that form. Verbs in these sentences to see explanations of why that tense is used.

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The table below shows you most of the tenses in English.

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