ACCORDING TO BRITISH AND AMERICAN GRAMMAR
- PAST
- PRESENT
- FUTURE
(Oxford Advanced learner's Dictionary)
Tense: Any of the forms of a verb which show the time at which an action happened.
(Cambridge Advanced learner's Dictionary)
Tense is a grammatical category that is realized by verb inflection. Since English has no future inflected form of the verb, that threefold semantic opposition is reduced to two tenses: the Present tense and the Past tense, which typically refer to Present and Past time respectively. (A Student's Grammar of the English language by Greenbaum &Quirk)
Comments
Post a Comment