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Before getting started on all of the tenses, we thought it would be best to show you how the concepts of tense and aspect work together to form these tenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s an image that will help you visualise how tense and aspect create individual tenses in English:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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