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1. The plane leaves in ten minutes.

2. Tom is leaving in two weeks.

3. Khan Academy has become popular with today's students.

4. The government has been conducting a census every ten years.

5. This must be her house. I can see her car in the garage.

6. It can't have been easy for him, looking after three kids on his own.

7. If the weather is nice, we'll go swimming.

8. I would buy a big house if I won the lottery.

9. The hormone used in the contraceptive pill was synthesized by a Mexican.

10. The mail is sorted in the office by hand.

Timetable

Unreal Present

Emphasis on recepient of action

Present with reference to past

Present process

Present-Future

Arrangements

Real Possibility

Future plans

Emphasis on receiver of action

Emphasis on result in present

Hypothetical situation

Past

Deduction of certainty (I'm sure it is)

Past discovery

Deduction of certainty (I'm sure it was not)

Present

Present with continuity from past

Future

Emphasis on prolongation of action