THE three perfect tenses in English — the present perfect, the past perfect, and the future perfect — capture the idea that one event or occurrence happened or happens before another time or event in ...

Linguistics professor John O’Regan on history written in the present tense, and Simon Allen on other documentary annoyances Adrian Chiles’s article concerning the use of the present tense in ...

We will recall that the simple progressive tenses — also called the continuous tenses — give us the sense of an action taking place at a particular time in the present, in the past, or in the future.

The grammatical category of tense in English is a bipolar relation based on the feature [±Past]. [+Past] (the so-called present tense) refers to any eventuality that occurs before the speech event ...