Tense
... or maybe 8, or 16 or 10^4. But professional linguists tend to agree that there are 2 of them. The 2 tenses in English are present and past. Future time is generally talked about in the present tense with the added aid of modal auxiliary verbs. There are 4 aspects in English: unmarked (or simple), perfect, progressive, and perfect progressive. These are combined with the two tenses so we can...
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