What are Tenses Definition & Examples

tenses  Tenses are used to indicate when an action takes place They help us understand whether an action happened in the past, is happening in the present or will There are three tenses in English, subdivided into twelve verb patterns Past, present, and future

Click on the verb tense to read more about how to form this tense and how it is used, or select a time to see the full list of tenses and references on that Verb tenses show us when an action takes place: in the present, past or future Each of the three main tenses has a progressive, perfect and perfect

tense Now the rare occurrence of a main verb in the present in combination tenses Whoever wrote the lemmata of Gellius wrote normal Latin when he Practice your English verb tenses here