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A Guide to Drinking Paint (in 12 verb tenses)

A Guide to Drinking Paint    
  (in 12 verb tenses)    
     
This is your guide to English's confusing tenses and how to use auxiliary verbs (do, have, be) to make them.
 
SIMPLE CONTINUOUS PERFECT SIMPLE PERFECT CONTINUOUS
PRESENT
 
subject?  
yes/no?  
object?  
I drink paint. I am drinking paint. I have drunk paint. I have been drinking paint.
I do not drink paint. I am not drinking paint. I have not drunk paint. I have not been drinking paint.
Who drinks paint? Who is drinking paint. Who has drunk paint Who has been drinking paint?
Do you drink paint? Are you drinking paint? Have you drunk paint? Have you been drinking paint?
What do you drink? What are you drinking? What have you drunk? What have you been drinking?
   
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PAST
I drank paint. I was drinking paint. I had drunk paint. I had been drinking paint.
I did not drink paint. I was not drinking paint. I had not drunk paint. I had not been drinking paint.
Who drank paint? Who was drinking paint? Who had drunk paint? Who had been drinking paint?
Did you drink paint? Were you drinking paint? Had you drunk paint? Had you been drinking paint?
What did you drink? What were you drinking? What had you drunk? What had you been drinking?
 
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subject ?  
yes/no ?  
object ?  
 
FUTURE
I will drink paint. I will be drinking paint. I will have drunk paint. I will have been drinking paint.
I will not drink paint. I will not be drinking paint. I will not have drunk paint. I will not have been drinking paint.
Who will drink paint? Who will be drinking paint? Who will have drunk paint? Who will have been drinking paint?
Will you drink paint? Will you be drinking paint? Will you have drunk paint? Will you have been drinking paint?
What will you drink? What will you be drinking? What will you have drunk? What will you have been drinking?
I am going to drink paint. I am going to be drinking paint. I am going to have drunk paint. I am going to have been drinking paint.
I am not going to drink paint. I am not going to be drinking paint. I am not going to have drunk paint. I am not going to have been drinking paint.
Who is going to drink paint? Who is going to be drinking paint. Who is going to have drunk paint? Who is going to have been drinking paint?
Are you going to drink paint? Are you going to be drinking paint? Are you going to have drunk paint? Are you going to have been drinking paint?
What are you going to drink? What are you going to be drinking? What are you going to have drunk? What are you going to have been drinking?
(will)
subject ?  
yes/no ?  
object ?  
(be going to)
 
subject ?  
yes/no ?  
object ?  
         
  THINGS TO NOTICE:
  do (do/does/did) - is used for the question and the negative of the Past Simple and the Present Simple.
  be (is/are/were) - is used for all Continuous tenses
  have (has/have/had) - is used for all Perfect tenses
  In a question, the first verb before the subject, unless the question begins with the subject--for example:
  "Who is that?"  /  "What happened to you?"  /  "Which flower needs water?"  /  "Whose kid stole my wallet?"
         
  FUTURE FORMS:
  will usually means a statement of a future fact or a new decision/plan
  going to usually means an existing plan, or a prediction of what will happen based on something noticed in the present.
  The latter 2 shaded tenses (going to have, going to have been) are possible, but are unlikely to be used in natural speech.
         
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