Verb Tenses
Verb Tense Rules – Explanations
In grammar, verb tenses indicate when something happens, in the past, present, or future. These three main forms can be divided further to add more detail about when. For example, the continuous tenses talk about actions that have continuity – that take place over time. The simple present tense concerns actions that happen every day or describe a state, and the simple past tense refers to something that happened in the past.
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