History of Grammatical tense

	Revision 4 . . December 11, 2001 2:01 am by Egern [Tense is often intertwined with mood (and also person). I wonder if all this belongs under the article on verbs? ]
	Revision 3 . . December 11, 2001 1:32 am by Lee Daniel Crocker [Info on other languages would be good here.]
	Revision 2 . . (edit) December 10, 2001 1:35 pm by RoseParks
	Revision 1 . . December 9, 2001 10:29 pm by Hannes Hirzel [Stub]

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Changed: 1c1

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.

Changed: 8c8

* 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".