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 ...

A recent episode of The Big Bang Theory shows Sheldon, Leonard, Raj, and Howard watching Back to the Future, Part II and discussing the appropriate tense to use when talking about something that ...

If you've ever felt that English could use a couple more tenses to truly capture the nuances of the past, present, and future, this exploration of languages that have taken verb tenses to ...

In English, the past perfect tense describes an action completed before another past event, or an action completed before a specific time focus. Grammatically, as the present perfect does, the past ...

Tense is the form of a verb which tells you when something happened. Look at the verb ‘talk’ for example. Technically, there are only two grammatical tenses in English: present and past. To ...