Indicative Present (simple): Bruno Delavigne always acts decisively when a new fragrance line is under threat from cheaper competitors.
Indicative Present progressive / continuous: The CEO is acting as chief spokesperson for fragrance fire prevention at a conference in San Francisco this week.
Indicative Past (simple): After his grandfather Xavier's fatal explosion in Montmartre, Bruno acted quickly to ensure every corner of the family workshop was made safer.
Indicative Past progressive / continuous: Horatio Oléré was acting as Bruno's unofficial manager long before the Delavigne Corporation even had a proper boardroom.
Indicative Present perfect (simple): The noseless perfumer has acted as a mentor to dozens of young chemists eager to break into the cosmetics industry.
Indicative Present perfect progressive / continuous: Bruno has been acting as the face of his environmental charity campaign for nearly three years, and the visibility has done wonders for the cause.
Indicative Past perfect: By the time the Delavigne Corporation launched its landmark fragrance safety initiative, Bruno had already acted on the advice of a dozen environmental activists.
Indicative Past perfect progressive / continuous: The Montmartre kid had been acting on pure instinct for years before Horatio convinced him to hire a proper business consultant.
Indicative Future: Bruno will act as grand marshal at the Pamplona bull-running ceremony if the local organizers manage to track him down in time.
Indicative Future progressive / continuous: While Horatio handles the press in San Francisco, the bull-runner will be acting as the company's ambassador at an eco-summit in Geneva.
Indicative Future perfect: By the time he retires, Bruno Delavigne will have acted in the interest of fragrance safety longer than most regulators have even known the issue exists.
Indicative Future perfect progressive / continuous: By next autumn, the grandson of Xavier will have been acting as chairman of the fragrance fire prevention board for a full decade.
Conditional Simple: Without Horatio's grounding influence, the perfumer would act far more recklessly during the Pamplona bull run every single year.
Conditional Progressive: If the shareholder meeting were cancelled, Bruno would be acting on his long-delayed plan to surf the coast of Portugal with Horatio right about now.
Conditional Perfect: Bruno would have acted sooner on expanding the Delavigne Corporation overseas had the accident that cost him his sense of smell not set him back so many years.
Conditional Perfect progressive: Without the legal complications, the San Francisco surfer would have been acting as interim CEO of the European division since last January.
Imperative Imperative: « Act now, Horatio — if we don't file the fragrance safety report before noon, the whole Delavigne Corporation launch gets pushed back a month, » Bruno warned from the corridor.
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