Present Tenses: review

Present Simple
We use the Present Simple to talk about:
• actions which are repeated regularly;
• states and permanent situations;
• with verbs expressing emotions (hate, like, love, etc.), states
of mind (believe, know, need, prefer, remember, seem,
think, understand, want, etc.) or senses (feel, hear, see, etc.);

Present Continuous
We use the Present Continuous to talk about:
• actions happening at the time of speaking;
• temporary situations;

Present Perfect Simple
We use the Present Perfect Simple to talk about actions and situations which:
• finished in the past and have a result in the present (and we don’t know or it’s not important when exactly they happened);
• started in the past and continue into the present;

Present Perfect Continuous
We use the Present Perfect Continuous to talk about:
• actions which started in the past and continue into the present;
• actions which lasted for some time (and possibly still continue) and whose results we can see now;

Present Perfect Simple vs Present Perfect Continuous
We use the Present Perfect Continuous to focus on the action or process (which may or may not be complete);
We use the Present Perfect Simple to focus on the result of a finished action.