Situations Tutorial

When to Use each Verb Tense

In GOE, “Situations” refers to the different ways actions happen in time.

Choosing the right verb tense helps readers and listeners visualise the actions in our stories and understand not only the order of events, but also if an action happened only once, or happened many times... or if it was, is, or will be happening before, after, or at the same time as another event.  And more...

Yes! They transmit a huge amount of information!

Learn the MVS Situations and you'll always know what tense to use.