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Grammatical tense is a way languages express the time or place at which an event described by a sentence occurs. In English, this is a property of a verb? form, and expresses only time-related information (English does not have spatial tenses).
Grammatical tense is a way languages express the time or place at which an event described by a sentence occurs. In English, this is a property of a verb? form, and expresses only time-related information (English does not have spatial tenses). Tense, along with mood? and person?, are three ways in which verb forms are frequently characterized in Indo-European languages.

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* Present continuous: "I am going." This is used to express what most other language use the simple present tense for.
* Present continuous: "I am going." This is used to express what most other language use the simple present tense for. Note that this form in English can also be used to express future actions, such as in the phrase "We're going to the movies tonight".

Grammatical tense is a way languages express the time or place at which an event described by a sentence occurs. In English, this is a property of a verb? form, and expresses only time-related information (English does not have spatial tenses). Tense, along with mood? and person?, are three ways in which verb forms are frequently characterized in Indo-European languages.

The exact number of tenses in a language is often a matter of some debate. An example of some generally-recognized English tenses using the verb "go" is shown here:


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