verb tenses
Past, present, future
Verb tenses indicate when an action occurs—past, present, or future.
English has simple tenses (I walk, I walked, I will walk), progressive tenses showing ongoing action (I am walking), and perfect tenses showing completed action (I have walked).
These combine to express precise temporal relationships: By the time you arrive, I will have been waiting for an hour.
- future perfectTense for prior completion
- pluperfectTense for earlier past
- had beenPast perfect auxiliary
- futureTime still to come
- going toExpresses future intent
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