*present/indicative
---	simple - I watch the news at 6pm.
		I prefer spaghetti.
---	continuous -- I am watching the TV.
		Right now I am eating spaghetti and talking.
*past
---	simple -- I watched the news yesterday.
---	continuous -- I was watching the news until the phone rang....
---	'imperfect' -- I used to watch the news when I was in college.
		I would watch the news then check my email and usually just go to bed.
		I remember how we would check out the girls on the beach then just look for a place to eat ...
*present perfect
---	simple -- I have eaten in this restaurant before.
		They've always been this way; they'll probably never change.
		We've done the best of all the teams! 
---	continuous -- I've been eating at this restaurant for 20 years.
		She's been looking at me for 2 hours. Is she a spy or is it love?
*past perfect	
---	simple -- They had always lived this way: simple, dirty, sloppy.
			But now something was different ... Papa had a new job ...
		We had hoped for change, but not a short-lived one.
		She had tried to get into college before but it never worked out.
---	continuous -- They'd been saving to buy a house for 10 years now and they were tired of it.
			"Was it ever going to happen?" Judy wondered...
		Sherlock Holmes had investigated this factory once before.
			"There's a vague, but persistent, air of deceit 
			 that I always sense when I'm here," he thought to himself.
		Gosh! I hadn't really thought about it!
*future		
---	simple -- I'll talk to you tomorrow. It's late now...
		You'll do fine on the test. Get some rest.
		She will never make the top 10 but she's a winner, let me tell you!
---	continuous -- We'll be talking at this same time tomorrow when you are at the hotel.
		Oh, now she's on vacation, she'll be sailing every day at dawn.
*future perfect
---	simple -- By 4:00, you will have been in Pittsburgh, so you should've see Jerry ...
		So, look, you'll have been able to arrange the wedding reception by July. Let's plan for August now...
---	contin.	-- At that point, you'll have been reading so many books that your mind will be confused. Let me help ...
	
*conditional
---	If you could read my mind, love, what a song my thoughts would tell.
	I'd be glad to lend you $10 if you would only tell me 'why?'
	He would risk it all, just for a glass of beer!
	(A somewhat old-fashioned British sentence: 'I should be glad to help you.'
	 would be, in Amerian English,'I would be glad to help you.')

*subjunctive
---	If I were a rich man, I would be able to do anything!
	"Though the night be dark, let your tears be still;
	   ever will I long for thy embrace..."
	May your dreams be merry and bright ...

*narrative
---	So, we're going down the road, you know....
	  and now the cops are closing in on us...
	  Well, I tell Joe, hey, it's getting kinda' hot in here.
	  And Joe, he's just focused on the road and he don't pay me no nevermind ...