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	Verb Tenses
		Past tense expresses an action or situation that was started and finished in the past.
		Present perfect tense describes an action that happened at an indefinite time in the past or that began in the past and continues in the present.This tense is formed by using has/have with the past participle of the verb.
		This tense is formed by using has/have been and the present participle of the verb (the verb form ending in -ing).
	leo.stcloudstate.edu /grammar/tenses.html (732 words)

	Using Verb Tenses
		The present perfect tense is used to describe action that began in the past and continues into the present or has just been completed at the moment of utterance.
		The simple past is used to describe an action, an event, or condition that occurred in the past, sometime before the moment of speaking or writing.
		The past perfect progressive is used to indicate that a continuing action in the past began before another past action began or interrupted the first action.
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/usetense.html (2859 words)

	Verb Tense Consistency
		Generally, writers maintain one tense for the main discourse and indicate changes in time frame by changing tense relative to that primary tense, which is usually either simple past or simple present.
		In general the use of perfect tenses is determined by their relationship to the tense of the primary narration.
		However, both past and future tenses are called for when she refers to its previous actions and to its predictable activity in the future.
	owl.english.purdue.edu /handouts/grammar/g_tensec.html (2136 words)

	ENGLISH PAGE - Simple Past
		Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past.
		The Simple Past can be used with a duration which starts and stops in the past.
		The Simple Past can also be used to describe a habit which stopped in the past.
	www.englishpage.com /verbpage/simplepast.html (388 words)

	AP Spanish Grammar Review: Past Indicative Tenses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		And depending on which tense they use, the preterit or the imperfect, their stories will be very different.
		tense describes an action, event, or condition seen as a completed action in the past during a certain period of time, like that car crash.
		tense is used in describing the past, expressing actions that were in progress at a certain time in the past, relating habitual, customary, or repeated actions in the past, and telling the time of the day in the past.
	www.power-glide.com /apex_span_er/6.html (708 words)

	Perfect Tenses
		The auxiliary verb ("to have") is in the present tense.
		Note: The past participle is usually the simple past tense of the verb, so you just add an "ed" to it: e.g., commit becomes committed, finish becomes finished.
		The past perfect tense, like the present perfect, is made with two cooperating verbs.
	modena.intergate.ca /personal/gslj/perfecttenses.html (764 words)

	German Grammar:Verbs:Past Tenses:Perfect Tense - Wikibooks
		The Perfect Tense or das Perfekt of verbs is used to talk about things in the past which have already happend.
		An auxiliary (Hilfsverb) and a past participle (Partizip Perfekt).
		In a main clause (Hauptsatz), the conjugated verb (the auxiliary in this case) is in second position, the past participle stands at the end of the clause.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/German_Grammar:Verbs:Past_Tenses:Perfect_Tense (1679 words)

	The two past tenses and their usage
		To talk about past events, German has two tenses that are almost entirely interchangable, in terms of their meaning.
		Therefore, it makes sense that beginners who are being introduced to the German past tenses for the first time should learn the simple past of sein, haben, werden, and the modals, along with the perfect tense of all the verbs in their vocabulary.
		The perfect is a compound tense; that is, it is formed from two parts--an auxilliary verb and a past participle.
	camden-www.rutgers.edu /dept-pages/german/past_tenses.html (936 words)

	Past tense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The past tense is a verb tense expressing action, activity, state or being in the past.
		In English, there are two distinct types of past tense:
		Each of these may also be found in the progressive (continuous) aspect.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Past_tense (64 words)

	Verbs: Past Tenses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When the sequence of past events is indicated with words like before or after, use the simple past for both events.
		Use the past progressive for an activity in progress over time or at a specified point in the past.
		Use the past perfect or past perfect progressive only when one past event was completed before another past event or stated past time.
	college.hmco.com /english/raimes/digitalkeys/keyshtml/verbs_pa.htm (217 words)

	Spanish past tenses: Preterit and Imperfect - Spanish Language
		Both, Spanish preterite (or preterit) and imperfect tenses are used to express past actions, but in English we have just one past tense.
		So, the English past form "I ate" could either be translated as "yo comí" (preterit) or "yo comía" (imperfect) depending on what we want to express (notice that they aren't interchangeable).
		In general terms, the preterit is used to express an action (in the past) that is completed or seen as completed, that has concrete and clear beginning and end.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art29963.asp (490 words)

	More Subjunctive Tenses in Spanish
		Besides the present subjunctive, there are several other subjunctive tenses which you need to know and be able to use.
		Contrast the use of the present tense governing verb plus present subjunctive situation and that of a past tense governing verb and the imperfect subjunctive.
		Similar to the past perfect indicative, this tense is may be used to indicate an action or state that occurred prior to something in the past (usually expressed by the imperfect or preterit indicative, or by the past subjunctive):
	users.ipfw.edu /jehle/courses/PASTSUBJ.HTM (734 words)

	esl blue(s) Quizzes: Past Tenses
		Write the correct affirmative or negative past tense form of the verb in response to historical facts.
		Passive construction in the past tense and in other tenses.
		All tenses, but especially past, past continuous, present perfect.
	www.collegeem.qc.ca /cemdept/anglais/espagnol/pasttenl.htm (270 words)

	The use of the English tenses in a nutshell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		You use the present tense to express something that happens in the present.
		the activity started in the past and is continuing after the moment of speaking a(so not finished).
		You use the Past Perfect instead of the Simple Past or Present Perfect when an action has taken place before another action in the past.
	www.geocities.com /kvancauw/use_of_the_English_tenses.htm (513 words)

	Usage of Tenses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To discuss events in the past, use preterit or imperfect.
		To talk about actions that were pending at a point in the past and things that may have or not existed, use imperfect subjunctive.
		or to refer to past events with relevance to the present, use present perfect.
	www.econ.jhu.edu /people/tchaidze/SPANGRAM/tenses.html (488 words)

	ENGLISH PAGE - Verb Tense Tutorial
		Verb tenses are tools that English speakers use to express time in their language.
		I had studied a little English before I moved to the U.S. will have studied every tense by the time I finish this course.
		I am going to have studied every tense by the time I finish this course.
	www.englishpage.com /verbpage/verbtenseintro.html (297 words)

	Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Indo-European is the name given for geographic reasons to the large and well-defined linguistic family that includes most of the languages of Europe, past and present, as well as those found in a vast area extending across Iran and Afghanistan to the northern half of the Indian subcontinent.
		A clear reflex of this feature is preserved in the English strong verbs, where, for example, the vocalic alternations between write and wrote, give and gave, express the present and past tenses.
		Nouns had different endings for different cases, such as the subject and the direct object of the verb, the possessive, and many other functions, and for the different numbers, namely the singular, plural, and a special dual number for objects occurring in pairs.
	www.bartleby.com /61/8.html (9441 words)

	IIS Test 9 - Present & past tenses
		IIS Test 9 - Present & past tenses
		Present & past tenses - A good nose for a bargain
		Put the verbs in the newspaper article into the most appropriate present or past tense.
	mbm.dotnet11.hostbasket.com /iis/testy/test09.asp (82 words)

	Grammar notes: past tenses
		As far as Spanish speakers are concerned, the main thing that you should remember is that you have more verb tenses in Spanish than we have in English.
		The past perfect can be used for dramatic effect, looking from one point in the past to another point even further in the past:
		The past simple can be used when one action follows another and it's obvious that it happened afterwards:
	valenciaenglish.netfirms.com /past.htm (391 words)

	Irregular past tenses ending in ''t'' \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Are irregular past tenses ending in ''t'' going away?
		Are irregular past tenses ending in ''t's'' rather than ''ed's'' slowly going away?
		But I would probably say "The house burned fiercely for hours" but "The house was burnt to the ground" so it maybe a matter of tense.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/2004/5227.htm (463 words)

	Maher Bahloul, Ph
		Review of Tense and Text: A Study of French Past Tenses by Engel Dulcie, Routledge (Croom Helm Romance Linguistics Series), 1990.
		“Real Tense Usage and the Tense We Teach: Revisiting the Past Perfect” Paper presented at The First Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) group International Conference on "Language in Use and Language in the Classroom" Hosted jointly by The University of Limerick and Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland 14 - 15 June 2002.
		Tenses in Journalistic Discourse: Challenging ESL Textbooks”, Sponsored by TESOL Arabia, Abu Dhabi Chapter, British Council, Abu Dhabi, 16 December, 2004.
	www.bahloul.com /Doc/Curriculum/Dr.%20Maher%20Bahloul%20CV.htm (1091 words)

	Past tenses exercise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There may be more than one tense possible.
		I've used the tenses that sound the best, i.e.
		the past simple may be possible sometimes rather than the past perfect.
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	past tenses
		The Past Simple is used to express that an action, state or situation started and finished in the past.
		to mark that a (past) action lasted longer than a shorter action
		The past perfect expresses which of two actions ocurred
	acacia.pntic.mec.es /~agip0002/auro/pasts.html (189 words)

	Present Perfect and Past Simple tenses
		We use the Past Simple tense to talk about a definite finished time in the past.
		Present Continuous Tense when to use; how to form; ing forms of the verbs; English action and state verbs; the difference between the Present Continuous and the Present Simple tenses; test.
		The verb to be - the Present Simple Tense.
	www.eclecticenglish.com /grammar/PresentPerfect1E.html (353 words)

	Cognitive Science Bibliography
		Ling, C., and Marinov, M. Answering the connectionist challenge: A symbolic model of learning past tenses of English verbs.
		Pinker, S., and Ullman, M. The past and future of the past tense.
		A model of learning the past tense without feedback.
	cogsci.uwaterloo.ca /Bibliographies/cogsci.bib.html (3702 words)

	ESL Test: Be careful (questions) :: Present perfect and simple past tenses
		be careful present perfect and simple past tenses phrasal verbs and activity or exercises american idioms and slan…
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	Past tenses: verb forms
		Use the past tense form of the verb
		when you use the auxiliary verbs 'do,' 'does,' 'did' to form questions and negatives in the past and present tenses:
		Back to top Use the past participle to form the present perfect tense (I have
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	The British in Florida. The Lounge
		The British forms are recognizable by Americans and occasionally found in American texts, though their usage may be considered an affectation.
		Verb past tenses with "t": British dreamt, leapt, learnt, spelt; American dreamed, leaped, learned, spelled.
		Other verb past tense forms: British fitted, forecasted, knitted, lighted, wedded; American fit, forecast, knit, lit, wed.
	www.sunnybrits.com /british/lounge/language.htm (900 words)

	Learn English - Grammar - Tenses Page
		I am going to be studying English when my friends arrive at 9.00 pm.
		Future Perfect Simple (uses will have or shall have + past participle)
		Used to say something will already be complete by a time.
	www.learnenglish.de /PictureIt/tensespage.htm (436 words)

	Mirabilis.ca: miscellaneous Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The two boys are past participants of the Belfast Children's Vacation project, a month-long retreat organized by a group in St John, New Brunswick.
		The National Post article doesn't seem to be on the web, but there's more about the Belfast Children's Vacation Project at BelfastKids.ca, and in this Neutral Ground page at the CBC site.
		Ed Brent, professor of sociology at the Columbia, Mo., university, spent six years developing the program, which is called Qualrus, and has been testing it on his pupils for the past two.
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