Tenses= simple present,present continuous,past continuous with four example each

• The simple present tense: this tense is used to express something actually taking place at that moment, to express a habitual action or general truth.

For example: The little boy jumps.
I go to school daily.
The Sun rises in the East.

With ‘he, she, it’ the verbs take an ‘-s’ at the end. For example: He eats his food.
With ‘I, you, we, they’ the verb does not take an ‘-s’ at the end. For example: I eat my food.

• Present continuous: expresses that an action or event is going on in the present, it is incomplete or unfinished.

For example: He is eating his food.
Smita is jumping up and down.
They are running fast.
The present continuous is formed by ‘present tense of the verb ‘to be’+ present participle of the main verb’: is+ eating;is+ jumping;are+ running, etc.

• The past continuous expresses an action or event in the past that was happening over a period of time. It was unfinished at the time referred to.

For example: They were painting the wall.
Ram and Sita were going to the forest.
Laxman was following them.
The past continuous is formed by ‘past tense of the verb ‘to be’+ present participle of the main verb’.