Tiffany, Well, that is a controversial question. Some linguists claim that there are only TWO tenses in English, the present and the past. Others claim that there are as many as sixteen. I listed them below. 1. Present Simple - I work 2. Present Continuous - I am working 3. Present Perfect - I have worked 4. Present Perfect Continuous - I have been working 5. Past Simple - I worked 6. Past Continuous - I was working 7. Past Perfect - I had worked 8. Past Perfect Continuous - I had been working 9. Future Simple - I will work {*including "be going to + infinitive" form) I am going to work} 10. Future Continuous - I will be working 11. Future Perfect - I will have worked 12. Future Perfect Continuous - I will have been working (13-16 are the "conditional" tenses would,could,should) 13. Future Simple in the past - I would work {*includes "was/were going to + infinitive" form} 14. Future Continuous in the past - I would be working 15. Future Perfect in the past - I would have worked 16. Future Perfect Continuous in the past - I would have been working Feel free to disagree!