ALL English present tenses explained in 7 minutes [including Present Perfect!]

Learn all about English present tenses in 7 minutes: how and when to use them, and the differences between the different present tenses. In this video, we're going to discuss the following present tenses in English: the present simple, the present continuous, the present perfect, the present perfect continuous, the phrase ‘tend to’.
We will also look at the differences between the present tenses and structures, to make sure you're not mixing them up.
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Here's a quick look at what each of the English present tenses looks like. To learn how to use them, watch the video :)
Present simple:
I go to the gym twice a week.
To ask a question, use ‘do’ or ‘does’ and the ‘base’ form of the verb:
How often does your sister go to the gym?
To make it into a negative sentence, add ‘not’ after ‘do/does’. For short, you can use ‘don’t/doesn’t’.
I go to the gym = I don’t go to the gym.
Present continuous:
I am drinking coffee right now.
So, it's 'to be' + verb + ing
To ask a question, invert 'to be' and the subject:
Are you drinking coffee right now?
To make it negative, add 'not' after 'to be':
I am not drinking coffee right now.
Present perfect:
I have had this car for a year.
So, you need ‘have/has' and the past participle form (third form). 'Had' is the past participle form of the verb 'to have'.
To ask a question, invert 'have/has' and the subject:
Has she lived here for a long time?
To make it negative, add 'not' after 'have/has':
I have not lived here for a long time.
Present perfect continuous:
I have been drinking this coffee for 10 minutes.
You need 'have/has' + 'been' + verb + ing
To ask a question, invert 'have/has' and the subject:
How long have you been waiting?
To make it negative, add 'not' after 'have/has':
He has not been waiting long.
Tend to:
I tend to have my lunch at midday.
What time do you tend to have your lunch?
I don’t tend to have lunch early.
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[@RomanRussia2014]

I am an english teacher and i think Present Perfect is the most difficult tense in comparison with Past Simple.Students can not grasp the meaning and the difference between them.

[@tija2011]

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[@longbranch4493]

@@tija2011 he probably just watches another video before every class and then repeats its content, so it's not so impressive

[@mohamedhussein2001]

Brilliant explanation 👏 . I tend to listen carefully all your lessons, deeply appreciated for your exceptional teaching.
Always Present Perfect/Continous tenses are the most difficult in English grammar.

[@justynaniewiarowska-sedak3783]

Great way to explain tenses! Bravo 👏

[@TrungPurpVN]

As an english teacher your videos always help me with preparing my lessons XD
Conveying ideas that has become second nature to me is hard

[@rammmuanpuiichuaungo8025]

Brilliant explanation.... and simple to comprehend as well, thanks ☺️❤️

[@torello137]

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[@majacichocka4972]

Very useful material and simple explanation and examples. Definitely like it and I hope to be more confident in speech from now.

[@sadamnawash861]

Actually, Ur way is so splendid to how to explain the differences among tenses ..Thanks a lot.

[@idabagusdarmaputra125]

Great job Augnieszka...you have explained everything about present tenses...simple..present continues...present perfect..present perfect continues..and the last but not least using the word tend that little bit has relationsip with simple present tense..again thank you very much..I salute you❤❤❤

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[@eugenia5824]

Thank you for the video! I love your pronunciation 🥰

[@cristinaanna649]

Wonderful!!! Thanks!!!

[@feelingsspeak2514]

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[@shaikmadhar3517]

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[@yelizmaltepe9725]

Thanks for the video :) For me, Present Perfect Simple is the most difficult present tense

[@ChorJagoda-wu2ve]

Brilliant teacher, thank you❤

[@sandratriana5300]

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[@arkanmounir5441]

Simple and effective presentation method. Even beginners like me can understand you. Thank you very much and more progress.

[@english_with_aga]

Really nice to hear that and I’m glad I could help! 😊

[@user-tw6yj7eu2e]

LOVE these videos! Thank you for making them! I'm curious if you could film a MASH UP of each ACTION for each verb at the end? "I drink 3 coffees every day." (you drinking coffee at 7:00am, 10:00am, and 2:00pm with a clock and sitting down at a different table or restaurant); "I am drinking coffee." (you sipping a coffee) etc...

[@doc344]

Thanks, great work! This video is very useful, because the tenses are described clearly and somehow compactly. :)
The present perfect continuous has always given me headaches.
In general, the tenses that are used to describe periods of time are difficult to use "on the go", imo.

[@oluwaseyipopoola6643]

Great video 👍🏿 like the way u explained each tenses.

[@user-cv8ed5tv6o]

Thank you for the lesson ♥️
I'd love to be more confident with Conditionals. 🤔

[@joaoandre7488]

Thank you teacher what a video, simple, clear, and easy to understand. Even though I knew them but gave me enormous pleasure to hear you explain all of them. Again, Thank you. 😅

[@english_with_aga]

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[@irenewaweru912]

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[@matitamanggyaba1964]

Good explanation and I am feeling these all help every learners.

[@bysavvyway]

Thankyou very ❤🎉much and the most difficult tense I found while learning was present perfect.

[@TCalisayx]

First of all, thank you so much for teaching us and I have problems with all the tenses.

[@ogyentsering6008]

Thank you so much for your interesting lessons

[@english_with_aga]

You’re welcome! Thank you for watching 😊

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[@MohammedEndris-rm2uu]

I really appreciate your teaching methodology teacher thank you

[@english_with_aga]

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[@CCD-yp6hh]

The 16 English verb tenses are always stressful to teach! Thank for your video. It's quite helpful!

[@english_with_aga]

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[@yuliyanasenov-yx6oc]

Great explanation , useful for me . Thank you

[@english_with_aga]

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[@steffiniemeck2598]

Thank for your Video .

[@AtakltiSolomon]

I thank you teacher!

[@goindigo5235]

For me, present perfect is the most difficult tense in comparison with the other ones. I’m from Argentina and I’m learning English, thanks a lot for your lessons.

[@etiennearnauld9112]

Nice explanation. I struggle a lot with present perfect...

[@arfatsharaf7901]

Well explained easily to understand

[@english_with_aga]

Glad you found it easy to understand!

[@jerry-white6998]

Hello teacher I think they are all difficult for me. But after I listen to this video, I feel great. Because you are explanation is so specific that I could understand the difference between these sentences. Thanks a lot. I appreciate it.

[@english_with_aga]

Great, I’m glad I could help 😊

[@jeangermain4391]

For me, the most difficult tense is the Present perfect continuous. As usual, your lesson is very interesting and clear. Thank you.

[@english_with_aga]

Thanks for watching! The present perfect continuous is definitely tricky!

[@malakalsudani5912]

Thanks ❤

[@nathenewendzel7806]

I'm frustrated I wasn't taught this at any point from Elementary through High School. They covered past, present, and future tenses in school, but they never built upon in further in English and Language Arts classes. I did sense a slight difference in meaning whenever I used or read or heard different forms, but I didn't really have the thought until I was thinking back upon learning about the topic in a Spanish class and started wondering do we have something like that in English. I thought about the different ways to say things in the present tense and how they each seem to give off a different kind of message that I can't exactly explain very well and well it appeared to be evidence that English might also have subcategories of the tenses and so I looked it up and now I'm using this video to educate myself and I will most likely use this new information while writing my stories and things of importance.

[@SimplyPanda]

Thank you so much really helped me to understand better! ❤

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[@SimplyPanda]

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[@artinshorttime5604]

I think the present perfect and how we can decide which tens we can use. Perfect or prefect continuous or can we use one of them in all cases? Thank you my best teacher in all times

[@euniceachieng6333]

Thank you for the lation of today

[@hishamsalem193]

Hi I am new to your videos although I speak fluent English but I am confused with how I apply the right grammar
Your videos is impressive and I like 👍 ❤
Thanks AGNUS

[@abedgivtag4600]

I am a student and I think present perfect is the most difficult

[@dieniferraianedejesuscamar2574]

I agree with you 😅

[@user-br8ww9io8t]

Thanks

[@hanialihassan4847]

Thanks teacher for you explanation
Present perfect is difficult

[@Kotyamba389]

I think all tenses are difficult in spoken English😀. Especially Present Perfect from this video. Thanks a lot! This is very useful!

[@oleggolokhvastov2671]

Amaizing content! Thanks for your great job!

[@abdelhakbouhadda6504]

Think you, it was toi clear.
The most difficult tense is the presente Perfect.

[@josephmachemba4888]

Thank u madam !!

[@userohygen]

Tnx!!!❤

[@mariol1106]

Great lesson, as usual, thank you!
Which sentence is correct:
I'm Polish but I have lived in France for 30 years
or
I'm Polish but I have been living in France for 30 years?
Both are correct but the meaning isn't exactly the same?

[@firewoinimalede6613]

thanks tr 🥰

[@JaviAranibarC]

Thank you Agniezka, probably i am having a little bit of confusion with the two forms (Present perfect and presente perfect continous) in which you use the frase "the whole period". Probably is it about long and short period of time? Thank you very much. Regards.

[@arfatsharaf7901]

Awesome

[@Brixton864]

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[@aliragab2748]

❤Greetings from Egypt❤

[@Sh-Shahir]

Thanks for your question, I think present perfect continuous is the one difficult!

[@triza0540]

Thanks ma'am,
Present perfect and present perfect continuous tense 😬

[@dreamandmakeit6221]

Just look at the present perfect and present perfect continuous. Present means now, perfect means completion, continuous means now doing continuously. Just think about it. You will get an idea.

[@lulutessua2465]

Present perfect continuous is of hard but today I have understood

[@bhatmubashir]

Nice

[@nathenewendzel7806]

The message I seem to be getting from this
• Present Simple- Use when talking about actions done regularly, habits, repetitive actions
• Present Continuous- Use when talking about it happening in the now in that very moment
• Present Perfect- Use when talking about something that starting in the past and is still going on in the present
• Present Perfect Continuous- Use when talking about a continuous action that started in the past that is still happening now while referring to the whole period of time
• Present Simple: Do, Does
• Present Continuous: Am, Are, Is
• Present Perfect: Have, Has
• Present Perfect Continuous: Have been, Has been
• Present Simple: Use verb in simplest forms
• Present Continuous: Use verbs with ing
• Present Perfect: Use have or has followed by past tense very
• Present Perfect Continuous: Use have been or has been followed verb with Ing
I hope I am understanding this correctly. (Present Continuous?)

[@paolobragantini2991]

I'D LIKE TO KNOW, IN CASE OF USING PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOS, IF THE PAST PARTICIPLE VERB MUST BE ALWAYS ACTION VERBS. MOREOVER, WHEN I USE PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE I MUST ALWAYS USE STATIVE VERBS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP.

[@heshamhelmy4620]

ty

[@michaelmckelvey5122]

Ja grataluje ci, Ty bardzo dobdze mowisz po angielsku, nawet lepiej niz ja, a ja jestem Angolem! Swiety Boze nie pomoze! To zabawne, ale zauwazylem, ze kiedy Polak bardzo dobrze mowi po angielsku, to zawsze brzmi po australyjsku! Tylko czasem, kiedy, na przyklad mowisz rzeczownik 'language' cos nie jest tak i od razu slysze obcy akcent ale poza tym, wspaniale gadasz w moim jezyku! Pozdrowienia z Guildford'a pod Londynem.

[@Ntwadumela1]

Jak na Angola to bardzo dobrze piszesz. Mała wskazówka - nie używaj zbyt często zaimków takich jak: JA, TY, gdyż przeważnie są one zbędne, a jeśli coś nie jest potrzebne, to my tego nie używamy. Naturalnie będzie powiedzieć:
Gratuluję Ci, bardzo dobrze mówisz po angielsku, nawet lepiej niż ja a jestem Angolem.
ewentualnie:
Gratuluję Ci, bardzo dobrze mówisz po angielsku, nawet lepiej ode mnie a jestem Angolem.
Jak zwracasz się do kogoś, to w dobrym zwyczaju jest używać wielkiej litery - Twoje, Ci itp.

[@azizhamache7450]

Bravo bravo bravo

[@user-cb4yx9oj8m]

Hi teacher Aga. I think that the present perfect continuous is the most difficult tense.

[@AtakltiSolomon]

Can we use present perfect with time expression instead of present perfect continues tennis to mean the same thing? If we can't, Why?
What's the difference between these sentences?
1. I've taught here since January 4, 2022G.C (present perfect).
2. I've been teaching here since January 4, 2022G.C (present perfect continues).
I thank you for What you answer, teacher!

[@marius4363]

One that I struggled and still struggle is present perfect because I keep mistaking it with the past simple

[@nevelleeroberth6522]

Thanku

[@english_with_aga]

You’re welcome!

[@AjeetKumar-wx6jw]

Present perfect continuous is the most difficult

[@triemrdl7596]

as for me simple tenses are not much difficult as past or future, but i have some difficults with present perfect continuous

[@user-lz2yx8uz6c]

Present perfect

[@beatalastovko9346]

Hey! Is there a difference between "I have lived in London for a year" and "I have been living in London for a year?

[@paolobragantini2991]

I'D LIKE TO KNOW, WHEN I USE PAST PERFECT CONTINUOS, DO I HAVE TO USE ALWAYS ACTION VERBS. MOREOVER, IF I USE PAST PERFECT, DO I HAVE TO USE STATIVE VERBS.

[@JuanManuel0610]

Present perfect I think is the most difficult for me.
In Spanish and Italian we haven’t got something similar.
I’m still doing the same mistake every day.

[@user-nt5fn9cu4z]

Of course present perfect tense is the most dlfflcult one because being a student,it is a really hard thing learning the all past partlclpant forms of verbs

[@hafsaazam4236]

Presnt perfect

[@taldekel5524]

Hello, thank you for the video. So, what is the difference between:
I have lived in london since 2012
and - I have been living in london since 2012 ?
Is it the same? I would be happy to get your response

[@Ntwadumela1]

PRESENT PERFECT or PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS? | the difference
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[@l_4783_s]

2:50

[@faisaabbdirahman722]

Thanks you ma’am
Plz teach us how to pronounce words like a native

[@raul-eduarddabija694]

I studied all this stuff in medium school but I forgot.y problem is to use them in the conversation, I really don’t find my words and the result is horrible. I am in my mid-fifties. Do you think there would be a chance to speak in a proper way ?

[@johnlawrence3781]

Świetnie 🇵🇱 Ago.

[@anacristinacardoso4299]

Present perfect in my language it doesn't exixte😊

[@meymunsaciid645]

Thnks from somali gril

[@mahraalyafiei4885]

0:21 it’s present perfect ! I find it tricky although I know the structure

[@english_with_aga]

Most people find it hard!

[@muzamilishaq2475]

Present simple

[@emilianarahankey8293]

Present prefect

[@abdelfatahfawaz1597]

2:15 2:15 2:15

[@karidymmiewArbanTynsong]

The continuous and perfect continuous are the most difficult for me and I don't know how to use them.

[@wayneyan2982]

Present perfect continous form is the most difficult for me

[@annapetersen7694]

Present perfect continous 🥹

[@farshadfarhady8931]

The most difficult is present continues

[@Anushya956]

Present perfect in the most difficult one

[@latifaalneyadi299]

Present prefect the most difficult one

[@prasanths7684]

Present perfect always confuses me

[@aasmahilyas6088]

Present perfect continue tense

[@vladimirs3779]

Present perfect continuous is the most difficult to understand, definitely. Generally, all perfect continuous tenses.