Tiempos Verbales en Inglés: Resumen Completo de Tiempos y Estructuras

Tiempos Verbales y Marcadores Temporales

Presente Simple

Usos: Hábitos, rutinas, verdades universales.

Adverbios de frecuencia y expresiones: Always, sometimes, never, live, hate, often, understand, every day, usually.

(Se deja tal cual)

Presente Continuo

Expresiones: Now, on Sunday, this Friday, at the moment, at present.

Estructura: I am + [verbo]-ing (not)

Pasado Simple

Expresiones: Yesterday, last year or month, in the past, ago, when, in the 19...

Estructura: S + [verbo]-ed

Pasado Continuo

Estructura y conectores: While, when (S + was/were + [verbo]-ing)

Presente Perfecto

Expresiones: For, since, yet, ever, already, just.

Estructura: S + have / has + Participio

Pasado Perfecto

Expresiones y conectores: After, by the time, before, was.

Estructura: S + had + Participio

Futuro Simple

Usos: Acciones futuras sin pensarlo previamente, predicciones basadas en opiniones.

Expresiones: I think, in my opinion, will, horarios, tonight, tomorrow, next year, in a month.

Estructura: S + will

Futuro "Going to"

Usos: Planes pensados con anterioridad, hechos evidentes.

Estructura: To be + going to

Ejemplos Prácticos de Equivalencias y Transformaciones

• She has been working for six hours
• It is/has been 6 hours since she began working
• She started working 6 hours ago (hace)
• She hasn't phoned me for a month
• It is/has been a month since she last phoned me
• She last phoned me a month ago
• It's the first time I visit a museum
• I have/had never visited a museum before
• The last time I saw her was at Christmas
• I haven't seen her since Christmas
• My friends left before we arrived at the party
• By the time/when we arrived at the party, my friends had (already) left
• My mum hasn't smoked for two years
• My mum gave up smoking 2 years ago
• I have arranged/decided/planned to share a flat with my friend next year
• I am going to share a flat with my friend next year
• When I was a child, I read comics every day
• I used to read comics every day when I was a child