Tense definition and examples

Without tenses in English, it would be impossible for you to tell people what you want, what you did and what your plans are. Nothing would make sense anymore.

So in this post, you will learn everything you need to know about the tenses in English—from what they are to how to practice them.

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What is a Tense?

Simply put, a tense is a form of a verb that allows us to express time.

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For example, if you want to talk about something that happened last week, you would use the past tense. If you want to talk about something that will happen next month, you would use the future tense.

When using tenses in English, we use the present (right now) as our point of reference because we are living in it.

So if you ate pizza yesterday, that action happened in the past, right? That’s because it happened before the present time (before right now).

Since you ate pizza in the past, if you want to tell some

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