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present progressive / am working, you are working, etc
present perfect simple / have worked, you have worked, he/she/it has
worked, etc
present perfect progressive / have been working, you have been
workirig, etc
simple past / worked, you worked, he/she/it worked, etc
past progressive / was working, you were working, etc
past perfect simple / had worked, you had worked, he/she/it had
worked. etc
past perfect progressive / had been working, you had been working,
etc
infinitives (fo) work; (to) be working; (to) have worked;
(to) have been working
participles working; worked; having worked
Note: Future tenses can be constructed with going to instead of will (for
the difference, see 136.3).
I'm going to work; I'm going to be working; I'm going to have worked

actual(ly)
Actual means ‘real’; actually means ‘really’ or ‘in fact’.
We often use them to correct mistakes and misunderstandings, or when
we say something unexpected or surprising.
The book says he was 47 when he died, but his actual age was 43.
‘Hello, John. Nice to see you again.’ ‘Actually, my name’s Andy.’
,
‘Do you like opera?’ ‘Yes, | do.’ ‘Actually, I've got two tickets .. .
She was so angry that she actually tore up the letter.
Note that actua/ and actually are ‘false friends’ for people who speak
European languages. They do not mean the same as, for example,
actuel(lement), aktuell, attuale/attualmente. To express these ideas, we
say present, current, up to date; at this moment, now, at present.
What's our current financial position?
A hunared years ago, the population of London was higher than it is
now. (NOT ... fighertharitaetually is.)

adjectives ending in -ly

Many adverbs end in -/y— for example happily, nicely. But some words
that end in -/y are adjectives, not adverbs. The most important are
friendly, lovely, lonely, ugly, silly, cowardly, likely, unlikely.
She gave me a friendly smile. — Her singing was lovely.