Sophisticated Sentences: The Twelve Verb Tenses of English Simple Past For a finished action. Simple Present For action happening at the moment of writing; also for habitual actions or things that are always true. Simple Future For action that will happen once in the future. Fill in the correct form of the verb – All tenses. My family have. (buy) some land in. (help) him with his English. (break) down when I. Online + PDF grammar rules and exercises on all English tenses. Present, past + future tenses, present perfect, past perfect and future perfect.