📄️ Present
Present time refers to the time around the moment of writing or speaking (time around now) and to general and permanent time. The two most common ways to refer to present time are the present simple for general facts and regular events, and the present continuous for an event happening now:
📄️ Present simple (I work)
Present simple: form
📄️ Present continuous (I am working)
Present continuous: form
📄️ Present perfect simple (I have worked)
Present perfect simple: form
📄️ Present perfect continuous (I have been working)
Present perfect continuous: form
📄️ Present simple or present continuous?
Present simple I am working
📄️ Present perfect simple or present perfect continuous?
Completed or continuing events
📄️ Present: typical errors
We always use the \-s form for third person singular present simple:
📄️ Present perfect: typical errors
We don’t use since with periods of time:
📄️ Present verb forms referring to the past
We commonly use the present simple to refer to the past when we want to make events sound as if they are happening now. For example, news headlines are commonly written in the present simple: