Here is a short summary with the forms and typical signal words.
| to play | positive | negative | signal words |
| simple present | I play, he plays | I don’t play, he doesn’t play | always, never, sometimes, usually, every … |
| present progressive | I am playing, he is playing | I am not playing, he isn’t playing | at the moment, now |
| simple past | I played | I didn’t play | yesterday, last Monday, 2 weeks ago, in 2011, on 5th May 2014 |
| past progressive | I was playing | I wasn’t playing | while |
| present perfect | I have played, he has played | I haven’t played, he hasn’t played | never, ever, just, yet, already, so far |
| present perfect progressive | I have been playing | I haven’t been playing | since, for |
| past perfect | I had played | I hadn’t played | before, after |
| will-future | I will play | I won’t play | soon, next, I think, … |
| going-to-future | I am going to play | I am not going to play | definite plans |
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