And yet they see this as an art form ..
active and passive aren't concerned with time so couldn't be lumped into tenses.Originally Posted by goo_stewart
Papa was a rodeo - Mama was a rock'n'roll band
I could play guitar and rope a steer before I learned to stand
If you Google, english/tenses/list, you'll get thousands of hits. They look like this:
So try it. If you come upon a page that says: There are two tenses in English: past and present. Please let us know.
present perfect
the English tense, present perfect
present continuous
the English tense, present continuous
present and future tense
present and future tense (the tense for referring to events that both are and will happen)
present perfect continuous
the english tense, present perfect continuous
simple future
the English tense Simple Future
simple present
the simple present English tense
simple past
the English tense, simple past
past perfect continuous
the English tense, Past Perfect Continuous
past perfect
the English tense Past Perfect
future perfect
the English tense Future Perfect
future continuous
the English tense Future Continuous
future perfect continuous
the English tense Future Perfect Continuous
past and future not present
past and future not present (the tense for referring to events which are not happening but have happened and will happen again)
past continuous
the English tense, Past Continuous
past and present tense
past and present tense (a mixture of past and present tense events)
all tenses
all tenses (the tense for referring to events that have happened, are happening and will happen again)
Grammatical tense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"For example, two-tense languages such as English and Japanese express past and non-past,"
and they have citations...
understood to have the three delimitations of "before now", i.e. the past; "now", i.e. the present; and "after now", i.e. the future. The "unmarked" reference for tense is the temporal distance from the time of utterance, the "here-and-now", this being absolute-tense.
So there are three absolute tenses. Has anyone here asked, how many absolute tenses are there?
The past, present and future walk into a bar. It was tense.
All of this is irrelevant.
Thai language has the answer to an age-old mystery which the rest of the world has been struggling with for centuries.
The chicken comes before the egg.
It's there, in the first two letters of their alphabet.
Chaos, my rump. In the beginning there was chicken. The Bible is absolute twaddle.
As for the OP: define "tense".
Migrated
"...and on the fifth day, God created the egg. Then he rested."
Might one ask something? Exactly how long have you been waiting to post that joke?
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From which I deduce God was a chicken.
There are thirteen, 4 x present 4 x past 5 x future, I could list the different simple, continuous , perfect and "Going to " or Will" with future ,but I can t be bothered to write them out. The best teaching book is "Teaching tenses" by Rosemary Aitken
Last edited by sunasiafash; 25th August 2012 at 07:03.
Again, that is only true in the commercial, ESL world. Ask most linguists and they will tell you there are 2
"Most linguists tell you there are 2" ? and what are they "now and then"? and only 13 in the "Commercial ESL world" hahahaha how funny
^Read the thread, dumbass.
^^ exactly. Past and present.
^he may not be entirely dumb
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