| singular | plural |
| Infinitive | | |
| compare | |
| present simple | | |
| 1 | I compare | we compare |
| 2 | you compare | you compare |
| 3 | he/she/it compares | they compare |
| past simple | | |
| 1 | I compared | we compared |
| 2 | you compared | you compared |
| 3 | he/she/it compared | they compared |
| future simple | | |
| 1 | I will/shall compare | we will/shall compare |
| 2 | you will/shall compare | you will/shall compare |
| 3 | he/she/it will/shall compare | they will/shall compare |
| conditional simple | | |
| 1 | I would compare | we would compare |
| 2 | you would compare | you would compare |
| 3 | he/she/it would compare | they would compare |
| present continuous | | |
| 1 | I am comparing | we are comparing |
| 2 | you are comparing | you are comparing |
| 3 | he/she/it is comparing | they are comparing |
| past continuous | | |
| 1 | I was comparing | we were comparing |
| 2 | you were comparing | you were comparing |
| 3 | he/she/it was comparing | they were comparing |
| future continuous | | |
| 1 | I will be comparing | we will be comparing |
| 2 | you will be comparing | you will be comparing |
| 3 | he/she/it will be comparing | they will be comparing |
| conditional continuous | | |
| 1 | I would be comparing | we would be comparing |
| 2 | you would be comparing | you would be comparing |
| 3 | he/she/it would be comparing | they would be comparing |
| present perfect | | |
| 1 | I have compared | we have compared |
| 2 | you have compared | you have compared |
| 3 | he/she/it has compared | they have compared |
| past perfect | | |
| 1 | I had compared | we had compared |
| 2 | you had compared | you had compared |
| 3 | he/she/it had compared | they had compared |
| future perfect | | |
| 1 | I will have compared | we will have compared |
| 2 | you will have compared | you will have compared |
| 3 | he/she/it will have compared | they will have compared |
| conditional perfect | | |
| 1 | I would have compared | we would have compared |
| 2 | you would have compared | you would have compared |
| 3 | he/she/it would have compared | they would have compared |
