Tense Usage

Question 1

Present

Answer 1

Used to describe what happens regularly and what is happening now.

Question 2

Conditional

Answer 2

Used to describe what would, could or should happen.

Question 3

Past perfect

Answer 3

Used to describe an action in the past that has finished.

Question 4

Past imperfect

Answer 4

Used to describe an ongoing action in the past or something that used to happen

Question 5

Pluperfect

Answer 5

Used to talk about actions far back in the past such as events that have happened.

Question 6

Near future

Answer 6

Used to describe what is going to happen with certainty.

Question 7

Simple future

Answer 7

Used to describe what will happen for predictions and future projects and in sentences with si and quand.

Question 8

Future perfect

Answer 8

Used to describe what the subject will or shall have done.

Question 9

Infinitive

Answer 9

Used to mean ‘to + verb’, a verb without ‘to’, or a verb ending with ‘-ing’.

Question 10

Imperative

Answer 10

Used to order or instruct someone to do something.

Question 11

Passive voice

Answer 11

Used when you don’t know who is doing an action, or to emphasise that an action is being done to something or someone, rather than focusing on who or what is doing the action.

Question 12

Present participle

Answer 12

Used with the preposition ‘en’ to mean ‘while doing’, ‘on doing’, ‘by doing’, or as an adjective.

Question 13

Perfect infinitive

Answer 13

Used to mean ‘having done’ something.

Question 14

Present subjunctive

Answer 14

Used when a person wants someone else to do something, or to express thoughts, possibility or necessity.