Verbs & Tenses
Learn how English expresses time, actions, experiences and future plans through its different verb forms.
Understanding time in English
Verbs tell us far more than when something happened.
English verb forms help us describe completed actions, ongoing situations, experiences, habits, future plans and relationships between different events in time.
Understanding when and why each form is used will help you communicate more naturally and confidently in both spoken and written English.
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Explore Verbs & Tenses
These topics are presented in the order in which they are typically introduced in many English courses.
This is not a recommendation for the order in which you should study them.
The philosophy of Teacher-In-A-Box has always been:
Your personal learning platform. Progress at YOUR pace.
You are free to follow the traditional progression, revisit a topic that has caused difficulty or explore whichever area is most useful to you today.
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Learn with confidence
Focus on meaning before memorising names.
Rather than memorising grammar terminology, begin by understanding what each verb form allows you to say. As your confidence grows, the grammar will become much easier to remember and use naturally.
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