Mastering Tenses

Present Tense:

• Present Worth: This refers to the current state or action.
• Durative: This indicates the elongation of the present.
• Habitual: Expresses actions that happen habitually or whose completion is unknown.
• Gnomic or Timeless: Used for proverbs and definitions.
• Present Value of Past: Used to bring the past into the present.
• Value for the Future and Imperative: Indicates a future action, especially when giving instructions or making a promise.

Past Tense:

• Imperfect Value of Past: Describes a durative or incomplete action in the past.
• Worth Imperfect Present: Indicates an imperfect contesia.
• Imperfect Opinion or Estimate: Used to express an opinion or estimate.
• Intrigue of Desire: Expresses a desire.
• Imaginative (Child Language): Used in imaginative scenarios.
• Imperfect Value of the Future: Used in conditional statements.
• Value of Imminence: Indicates an action about to happen.
• Imperfect Attempt: Expresses a wish.

Present Perfect Simple and Compound: The difference lies in the action's timeframe: whether it happens within a specific unit of time or a unit still in force.

Simple Future:

• Future of Mandate: Used for commands.
• Courtesy Future: Expresses politeness.
• Future of Surprise: Expresses surprise.
• Future Odds: Indicates probability.

Future Perfect:

• Future of Courtesy: Expresses politeness.
• Future Surprise: Expresses surprise.

Simple Conditional:

• Present Value: Indicates a present value.
• Conditional Courtesy: Expresses politeness.
• Conditional Surprise: Expresses surprise.
• Conative Conditional: Expresses a suggestion or advice.