Verb Tenses with an Irregular Verb |
| To Write |
| Simple Present 1st Person | I write every evening. |
Simple Present 3rd Person | She writes every evening. |
Simple Past | He wrote last night. |
Simple Future | They will write tomorrow. OR They are going to write tomorrow. |
Present Progressive 1st | I am writing right now while you are listening to music. |
Present Progressive 3rd | He is writing right now while she is watching TV. |
Past Progressive | She was writing for 2 hours during the final exam last week. |
Future Progressive | They will be writing together tomorrow. |
| Future Perfect Progressive | They will have been writing for 7 hours by the time they finish. |
Present Perfect | They have written on this topic before, and she has written on it too. |
| Past Perfect | They had written on this topic before, but it was many years ago. |
| Future Perfect | They will have written this by the time the students turn in their essays. |
| Passive Perfect | This topic has been written on by them. |
| Modal Perfect | They might have written this, and you could have told them. |
| Progressive Perfect | They have been writing for 4 hours, and he has been writing for 5. |
| Passive Present | These ideas are written about by many people. |
(Active Version) | Many people write about these ideas. |
| Past Passive | Three books were written by the students in the class. |
| (Active Version) | Students wrote three books in the class. |
| Future Passive | A compiliation of grammar rules will be written for the class. |
| (Active Version) | The teacher will write a compilation of grammar rules. |
| Modal Passive | This tense should be written correctly on the quiz. |
| (Active Version) | The students should write this tense correctly on the quiz. |
| Progressive Passive | The material is being written for the students. |
| (Active Version) | The teacher is writing the material. |
| True Present Conditional | If they write more, they will make a good grade on their essays. |
| Untrue Present Conditional | If they write more, they would make a good grade on their essays. |
| Untrue Past Conditional | If they had written more, they would have made a better grade on their essays. |
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