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The 12 English Tenses, Summarized: Chart, Formulas, and Examples
English has 12 tenses, built by combining three time frames (present, past, future) with four aspects (simple, continuous, perfect, perfect continuous). This guide gives you a complete English tenses chart with structures and example sentences, then explains the trickiest contrasts — like present perfect vs past simple — that show up again and again in TOEIC grammar questions.
8 min readRead article →How to Memorize English Vocabulary: 9 Techniques That Actually Work
To memorize English vocabulary so it sticks, stop re-reading word lists and instead test yourself from memory and review words at growing intervals (spaced repetition), always learning each word inside a real sentence. This guide covers the vocabulary memorization techniques that help you remember new words for the long term — spaced repetition, active recall, context, word families, mnemonics, and a simple weekly routine — with examples drawn from TOEIC and business English.
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