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Sequence of Tenses

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Sequence of Tenses

PRESENT

PRESENT

FUTURE

PAST

PAST

PRINCIPAL CLAUSE

PRINCIPAL CLAUSE

PAST

PRINCIPAL CLAUSE

SUBORDINATE CLAUSE

PRESENT

FUTURE

PRESENT SIMPLE

PRESENT PERFECT

FUTURE SIMPLE

We are all friends

PRESENT

PAST

FUTURE

FUTURE SIMPLE

PRESENT SIMPLE

PAST SIMPLE

“I believe I shall be in time today.”

“I have been told you are ill.”

“I’ll tell you why your mother
got angry with you.”

PRINCIPAL CLAUSE

SUBORDINATE CLAUSE

We can make friends only between ourselves

PAST

PAST

When the actions of both clauses take place at the same time

Past Simple

Past Simple

Past Simple

Past continuous

Past Simple

Past continuous

Past Simple

“Did you think he was right?”

“I thought you were doing
your homework.”

When the action of the subordinate clause takes place before the action
of the principal clause

PRINCIPAL CLAUSE

SUBORDINATE CLAUSE

Past Simple

Past Simple

Past Simple

Past Perfect

Past Perfect Continuous

Past Perfect

Past Perfect Continuous

“I thought I had won the race.”

“He said he had been working in the garden
for three hours.”

When the action of the subordinate clause takes place before the action
of the principal clause but refers to a definite past moment

PRINCIPAL CLAUSE

SUBORDINATE CLAUSE

Past Simple

Past Simple

“Didn’t you know that Shakespeare
was born in 1564?»

Past Simple

Future Simple in the Past

Future Simple in the Past

Future Continuous
in the Past

Future Perfect in the Past

Future Perfect Continuous in the Past

When the action of the subordinate clause takes place in future

Past Simple

“We didn’t expect
you would come so early.”

There is no sequence of tenses….

…If a universal truth is expressed in the subordinate clause.

PRINCIPAL CLAUSE

SUBORDINATE CLAUSE

Past Simple

Present Simple

The teacher told them that the earth
goes round the sun.

…If there is a comparison in subordinate clause.

Past Simple

Present Simple

“Last year I worked less than
I work now.”

…If the subordinate clause is an attribute clause.

Past Simple

Present Simple

He introduced her to his friend
who is fond of butterflies.