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Grammatical tense

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	Grammatical tense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tense, along with mood, voice and person, are three ways in which verb forms are frequently characterized, in languages where those categories apply.
		There are languages (mostly isolating languages, like Chinese) where tense is not expressed anywhere in the verb or any auxiliaries, but only as adverbs of time, when needed for comprehension; and there are also languages (such as Russian) where tense is not deemed very important and emphasis is instead placed on aspect.
		Not-yet tense: has not happened in present or past (nonfuture), but often with the implication that it is expected to happen in the future.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammatical_tense (1368 words)

	Verb Tense Consistency
		In general the use of perfect tenses is determined by their relationship to the tense of the primary narration.
		Tense shifts are inappropriate and are indicated in bold.
		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)

	tense
		Tense, the time in which you place the action, typically needs to be kept consistent within a single sentence or paragraph.
		Tense needs to be kept in a logical relationship.
		For similar reasons, the present tense should be used when discussing literary figures and events.
	staff.jccc.net /pmcqueen/tips/tense.htm (313 words)

	tense on Encyclopedia.com
		Any conjugated form of a verb that indicates tense is said to be finite; the infinitive is a special verb form that lacks all tense (as well as mood, person, and number), although it may indicate the active (to read) or passive (to be read) voice.
		Ayrton Senna is always tense and quiet before the race, he sits behind the wheel of his HONDA in the pits at Jerez, Spain.1988.
		The capital is tense and nervous as the October 5 presidential elections ap
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/t1/tense.asp (956 words)

	Encyclopedia: Future tense
		In linguistics, a future tense is a verb form that marks the event described by a verb as not having happened yet, but expected to in the future.
		In English, as in most Germanic languages, there is no future tense in the sense of a specific inflection that marks a verb for futurity after the fashion of the markers that appear in the preterite forms of the past tense.
		The conditional tense (sometimes described as the conditional mood) is a verb form in many languages, in which a verb root is modified to form verb tenses, moods, or aspects expressing degrees of certainty or uncertainty and hypothesis about past, present, or future.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Future-tense (1589 words)

	Greek Tenses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The present tense may be used to describe an action that, begun in the past, continues in the present.
		The present tense may be used fairly frequently in narrative literature to portray a past event vividly, as though the reader were in the midst of the scene as it unfolds.
		The force of the pluperfect tense is that it describes an event that, completed in the past, has results that exist in the past as well (in relation to the time of speaking).
	www.bcbsr.com /greek/gtense.html (2115 words)

	Tense - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Grammatical tense, the inflection of a verb to indicate whether past, present, or future time is intended
		Tenseness, a quality frequently associated with vowels and occasionally with consonants
		Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /tense.htm (238 words)

	Talk: Current events/Vote on tense - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Voting will end on April 13, 2003, the tense that the majority prefers will then be used for coming events and a notice to that effect will be inserted into the article.
		Present tense: mav (why the hell is this being voted on anyway?) Tarquin (hm, indeed.
		As mentioned the tense may need to be corrected if the story is finished or otherwise updated Such revision seems unavoidable here --editing is a necessary overhead.
	talk.open-encyclopedia.com /Current_events/Vote_on_tense (540 words)

	AllRefer.com - tense (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		tense [O.Fr., from Lat.,=time], in the grammar of many languages, a category of time distinctions expressed by any conjugated form of a verb.
		In Latin inflection the tense of a verb is indicated by a suffix that also indicates the verb's voice, mood, person, and number.
		Tense specifies whether the verb refers to action in the past, present, or future.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/tense.html (362 words)

	Temporal Logic
		Tense Logic was introduced by Arthur Prior (1957, 1967, 1969) as a result of an interest in the relationship between tense and modality attributed to the Megarian philosopher Diodorus Cronus (ca.
		Tense Logic is obtained by adding the tense operators to an existing logic; above this was tacitly assumed to be the classical Propositional Calculus.
		Prior's motivation for inventing Tense Logic was largely philosophical, his idea being that the precision and clarity afforded by a formal logical notation was indispensible for the careful formulation and resolution of philosophical issues concerning time.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/logic-temporal (3508 words)

	EnglishOntheRun-Grammar
		It is important to remember that tense is not the same as time and that the actions started in the past, continue now and will go on in the future.
		This tense is used to describe actions that began in the past, still go on in the present and possibly in the future.
		The other tense used to express future in English is formed with the auxiliary "will" followed by a verb in the infinitive form of the main verb.
	www.geocities.com /gob72/grammarverbtenses.html (1769 words)

	ta1: intro to tense, aspect, mood, voice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Tense is the grammatical term that refers to the time when the action of the verb occurs: past, present, future.
		Tenses are also described by their number of parts.
		In contrast, a tense comprising two forms, the auxiliary verb and the participle, is referred to as a compound tense (ie, le passé composé).
	www.laits.utexas.edu /tex/gr/ta1.html (654 words)

	Using Verb Tenses
		Through the use of a sequence of tenses in a sentence or in a paragraph, it is possible to indicate the complex temporal relationship of actions, events, and conditions
		The verb tenses may be categorised according to the time frame: past tenses, present tenses, and future 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.
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/usetense.html (2859 words)

	Writing Tips: Sentence Builder - Verbs - Verb Tense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Use the present tense to describe something that is universally true and not limited to a particular time.
		Use the present tense to discuss the contents of a book, a poem, or an essay even though the work might be written in the past.
		Usually, the past participle and the past tense are used in the same sentence.
	www2.actden.com /writ_den/tips/sentence/tense.htm (275 words)

	Tense and related topics
		And most English "traditional tenses" (i.e, the tenses that are "sort of the same as" the 6 tenses Latin had: present, imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect) canonically use only a few combinations.
		Linguists reserve the technical term "tense" for true inflection, i.e, one that produces a real change in a single word, as in Latin or Spanish, which are inflectional languages and have a lot of tenses, all encompassed paradigmatically.
		The rule is that the FORM of the next verb (Infinitive, Past or Present Participle, inflected form, etc.) is determined by the preceding verb, and the first verb is inflected for tense (past or present), and person and number subject agreement in the present (and in the past for "be").
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jlawler/aue/tense.html (2323 words)

	Learn Spanish: A Free Online Tutorial
		The preterite tense is used to refer to actions that occurred at a fixed point in time.
		The preterite tense is also used to refer to actions in the past that were performed a specific number of times.
		The preterite tense is also used to refer to actions that occurred during a specific enclosed period of time.
	www.studyspanish.com /verbs/lessons/pretreg.htm (169 words)

	TENSE
		All verbs in English and Latin have "tense"; that is, they place their statement about action or being in time.
		We usually think of tense in terms of the speakers time: "I am flying" is called a present tense because my flying is presented as occuring at the very same time as my speaking about it.
		Together these tenses (or combinations of time and aspect) are called the PERFECT SYSTEM and individually they are called the future perfect, the present perfect, and the pluperfect (or past perfect).
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /latin/grammar/tense.htm (518 words)

	Spanish Grammar: future tense
		The future tense is also used to express wonder or probability in the present state.
		Regular verbs in the future tense are conjugated by adding the following endings to the infinitive form of the verb: -é;, -ás, -á, -emos, -éis, -án.
		Since the endings are the same as all other future tense verbs, we show only the "yo" form, and have underlined the irregular stem.
	www.studyspanish.com /lessons/future.htm (186 words)

	Verbs - Past Tense
		We use past tense (preteritum) to tell about something that happened at a specific time in the past, or to tell about something that happened repeatedly in the past.
		There is not an easy way to learn the past tense of the strong verbs.
		In contrast, forming the past tense of weak verbs follows an easily recognizable pattern, and it is most efficient to learn what the pattern is and how to apply it rather than to memorize the forms of each individual verb.
	www.stolaf.edu /depts/norwegian/grammar/past-tense.html (275 words)

	Arthur Prior
		He invented tense logic and was principal theoretician of the movement to apply modal syntax to the formalisation of a wide variety of phenomena.
		In the l-calculus the propositions of the tense calculus are treated as predicates expressing properties of dates, the latter being represented by name-variables x, y, z.
		Scott's work on tense logic was one aspect of his study of the semantics of natural language, which he pursued in close collaboration with Richard Montague.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/prior (9522 words)

	330 Grammar: Forming and Using the Past Continuous Tense
		The past continuous tense (also called the past progressive tense) is commonly used in English for actions which were going on (had not finished) at a particular time in the past.
		This tense was formed using two components: the verb BE (in the past tense), and the -ING form of a verb.
		Finally, we can use this tense to describe TWO actions that were BOTH continuing at the same time in the past.
	web2.uvcs.uvic.ca /elc/studyzone/330/grammar/pascon.htm (255 words)

	The Past-Tense Verb in the Noldorin of the Etymologies
		The strong past tense, which class includes chiefly verbs arising directly from basic stems (that is, verb-stems arising directly from simple bases with verbal meaning, such as KAT- shape, BAT- tread, SUK- drink, etc.), is characterized by lengthening or otherwise strengthening the root syllable and suffixion of original final *‑ē.
		Within the strong past tense there are, again, two chief means of root strengthening: a) lengthening or fortification of the root vowel, and b) nasal infixion.
		The weak past tense, which class includes chiefly verbs arising from derived verb-stems (that is, verb-stems formed from a root by suffixion of some derivational element, such as ‑ā, ‑tā, ‑yā, etc.), is characterized by the lack of root syllable strengthening and the suffixion of some past-tense marker, very often ‑nē.
	www.elvish.org /Tengwestie/articles/Hostetter/noldpat.phtml (3289 words)

	Writing Guide: Present-Tense Verbs
		The tense of the verb in a sentence reflects the time at which the action is set.
		The present tense highlights the vividness with which they re-occur whenever they pass through our minds and, because they're works of fiction, they can and do relive with every re-reading.
		Thus, to avoid the sense that they are neutral and unconcerned, speakers often use the present tense when relating a past action, since it lends the story a sense of being right there right then.
	www.usu.edu /markdamen/WritingGuide/14prtens.htm (1071 words)

	Tense & Time
		Will take is often thought of as "future tense" but this use of the auxiliary is only one way of expressing future time, and in any case the auxiliary verb will is present tense.
		The choice of tense depends on how the writer views the event: as basically in the present world, or as basically in an earlier world.
		The tense of a verb in a subordinate clause may be 'attracted' to the past tense of a main clause.
	www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/dick/tta/tense/tense.htm (1640 words)

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