英语时态分为16种：
1.一般现在时 I sometimes go to work on foot.我有时步行去上班.
2.一般过去时 I was born in 1973.我生于1973年.
3.一般将来时 I will go to the zoo next Sunday.下周日我将去动物园.
4.一般过去将来时 I thought he would come.我以为他会来.
5.现在进行时 It is snowing now.现在正在下雪.
6.过去进行时 I was playing volley-ball this time last Sunday.上周日的这个时候我正在打排球.
7.将来进行时 What will you be doing this time tomorrow? 明天这个时候你将做什么?
8.过去将来进行时 They said they would be coming. 他们说了他们将要来.
9.现在完成时 He has lived here for three years.他在此住了两年了.
10.过去完成时 By nine o’clock last night,we had got 200 pictures from the spaceship.
到昨晚9点钟,我们已经收到200 张飞船发来的图片.
11.将来完成时By the end of the month he will have been living/working/studying here for ten years． 到了月底他在这里居住/工作/学习就满十年了.
12.过去将来完成时I shall have finished reading the book by the end of this week.我将在本周末前读完这本书.
13.现在完成进行时 I've been writing letters all this morning.我写了一上午信.
14.过去完成进行时 By the time he was ten,Edison had built a lab for himself.到爱迪生10岁时,他已给自己建了一个实验室.
15.将来完成进行时I shall have been working here in this factory for twenty years by the end of the year.到今年年底,我将在这个工厂工作20年了
16.过去将来完成进行时 I thought you'd have left by this time.我想这会儿你已经走了.