Are you an English whiz? Take the verb tenses quiz and find out how well you perform. It is believed that the real test in English grammar is to ace the use of verb tenses. A tense is defined as a ...

Understanding verb tenses is a fundamental part of mastering English grammar. Tenses tell us when an action happened – whether it's happening now, happened in the past, or will happen in the future.

You use the perfect tense when, in English, you would say that something has happened. So, if you wanted to say: ‘You have been to the hairdresser,' 'she has eaten all the biscuits’ or anything else ...