What Are the 12 Verb Tenses in the English Language?

• Present tense is when an action is currently happening.
• Past tense is an action that is no longer being done.
• Future tense is an action that is yet to be done.
• Present perfect must use “have” or “has” combined with the past participle of the verb.
• Past perfect must combine “had” with the past participle.

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• The Use of a Comma (,)
• The Use of Full Stop (.)
• Use of the Exclamation Mark (!)
• Use of Question Mark (?)
• Use of Semi-Colon (;)
• The Colon (:)
• Punctuation With An Apostrophe
• Use Quotation Marks Or Speech Marks (“….”) To Indicate A Quote
• The Hyphen is (-)
• A Set Of Brackets ()

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• BASE FORM — “speak” — This is the form in the dictionary.
• INFINITIVE — “to speak” — Do you plan to speak a gift to the new teacher?
• SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE (use “speak” for everything except third person singular) — I speak, you speak, he speaks, we speak,