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Present perfect
progressive
Past perfect progressive
Present
progressive
I am being
You are being
He/she/it is being
We are being
They are being
Infinitive
to be
Present
Past
I am
You are
He/she/it is
We are
They are
I was
You were
He/she/it was
We were
They were
Past progressive
I was being
You were being
He/she/it was being
We were being
They were being
They
Present perfect
I have been
You have been
He/she/it has been
We have been
They have been
Past perfect
I had been
You had been
He/She/It had been
We had been
They had been
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I
You
He/she/it not used
We
They
I
You
He/she/it not used
We
They
Present progressive
(also called the ‘present
continuous)
am walking
Example: I am walking to
the park.
Formation: present tense
of verb ‘to be’ (e.g. am,
are, is) + ‘ing’ form of the
verb.
Key:
Grammatical vocabulary first
explicitly mentioned
in Year 2
in Year 3/ 4
in Year 5/6
The following terms should be understood
with the meanings set out in the glossary:
Year 2: progressive form of verbs,
present, past tense
Year 3: present perfect form of verbs
Present
walk
Example: I walk to the
park everyday.
Present perfect
have walked
Example: I have walked to the
park every morning.
Formation: ‘has’/’have’ + past
tense form of the verb
Past perfect progressive
(also known as the ‘past perfect
continuous’)
had been walking
Example: I had been walking to
the park everyday (usually
followed by the conjunction
‘when’)
Formation: ‘had’ +’been’ +’ing’
Past
walked
Example: I walked to the park
everyday.
Formation: add ‘ed’ for regular
past tense
Past progressive
(also called the ‘past
continuous)
was walking
Example: I was walking
to the park (usually
followed by the
conjunction ‘when’)
Formation: ‘was’/’were’
+ ‘ing’ form of the verb
Past perfect
had walked
Example: I had walked to
the park every morning.
Formation: ‘had’ + past
tense verb
This document outlines when specific terms relating to verb forms and tenses are mentioned in the NC. Teaching of basic tenses will begin before year 2.
Reference to teaching of verb tenses can be found in the Year 1 Writing-transcription (spelling) PoS:
 using the spelling rule for adding –s or –es as the plural marker for nouns and the third person marker for verbs’
 ‘using –ing, -ed, -er and –est where no change is needed in the spelling of root words [for example, helping, helped, helper, eating, quicker, quickest]
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Present perfect progressive
(also known as the ‘present
perfect continuous’)
have been walking
Example: I have been walking
to the park everyday (usually
followed by the word ‘since’)
Formation: ‘has’/’have’ +’been’
+’ing’