Present Tense
I do

Present Continuous Tense
I am doing, I am doing tomorrow

Present Perfect Tense
I have done

Present Perfect Continuous Tense
I have been doing

Past Tense
I did

Past Continuous Tense
I was doing

Past Perfect Tense
I had done

Past Perfect Continuous Tense
I had been doing

Future Tense
I will do

Future Continuous Tense
I will be doing

Future Perfect Tense
I will have done

Future Perfect Continuous Tense
I will have been doing

More complicated:

Future tenses. Some languages have different future tenses to indicate how far into the future we are talking about. Some of these include:

Close future tense: in the near future, soon

Hodiernal future tense: sometime today

Post-hodiernal future tense: sometime after today

Remote future tense: in the more distant future

Predictive future tense: a future tense which expresses a prediction rather than an intention, i.e. "I predict he will lose the election, although I want him to win". As such, it is really more of a mood than a tense. (Its tenseness rather than modality lies in the fact that you can predict the future, but not the past.)

Nonfuture tense: refers to either the present or the past, but does not clearly specify which. Contrasts with future.

Nonpast tense: refers to either the present or the future, but does not clearly specify which. Contrasts with past.

Not-yet tense: has not happened in present or past (nonfuture), but often with the implication that it is expected to happen in the future. (As such, is both a tense and a modality). In English, it is expressed with "not yet", hence its name.



Past tenses. Some languages have different past tenses to indicate how far into the past we are talking about.

Hesternal past tense: yesterday or early, but not remote

Hodiernal past tense: sometime earlier today

Immediate past tense: very recent past tense, e.g. in the last minute or two

Recent past tense: in the last few days/weeks/months (exact definition varies)

Remote past tense: more than a few days/weeks/months ago (exact definition varies)

Nonrecent past tense: not recent past tense, contrasting with recent past tense

Nonremote past tense: not remote past tense, contrasting with remote past tense

Prehesternal past tense: before hesternal past tense

Prehodiernal past tense: before hodiernal past tense

Preterit: past tense not marked for aspect or modality


Present tense

Still tense: indicates a situation held to be the case, at or immediately before the utterance

Absolute-relative tenses
future perfect tense: will have completed by some time in the future, will occur before some time in the future

future-in-future tense: at some time in the future, will still be in the future

future-in-past tense: at some time in the future, will be in the past

future-perfect-in-pa st tense: will be completed by some time which is in the future of some time in the past, eg., Sally went to work; by the time she should be home, the burglary would have been completed. (this tense does not make much sense, ask a local English professional before using it)

past perfect tense: at some time in the past, was already in the past


Relative tenses

relative future tense: is in the future of some unspecified time

relative nonfuture tense: is in the past or present of some unspecified time

relative nonpast tense: is in the present or future of some unspecified time

relative past tense: is in the past of some unspecified time

relative present tense: is in the present of some unspecified time