It denotes the time an action takes place, whether sometime in the past, in the present or will take some time in the future
“I sang” is past tense because the idea of past time is expressed in the single form sang
All the tenses have progressive and non-progressive forms for eg, I work here/I am working here, are both Present tense
And you dont give your definition of tense
English has only two ways of forming a tense from the verb alone: the past and the present
Some examples of present perfect continuous tense are, My hands are very dirty as I have been painting the walls
This can seem confusing to many teachers (myself included, for a while) since we teach somewhere around twelve different tenses, possibly more depending on what qualifies as a tense
If we add combinations with the modals (will, would, can, could,
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The reason for their existence is “ to inform about the moment in time when an action takes place
Example of Past, Present, and Future Tenses: In English grammar, aspect is a property of verbs that communicate how an activity, occasion, or state, meant by a verb, stretches out after some time
mostly when two actions in a story are related to each other: the action which had already happened is put into Past Perfect, the other action into Simple Past