What tenses in modern English are not used by Shakespeare, and when did they first come into modern usage?

Answer 1

There are only 2 real tenses in English : Simple Present and Preterit. The other 'tenses' are known as 'aspects'... and reflect the speaker's 'view' of the world, as the speaker defines things from his / her point of view ...

Perhaps Shakespeare didn't use 'Be + going to + verb base' ... but I really don't know ... looooooool

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Answer 2

It's true that English only has two true tenses, but:
Be going to may or may not have been used by Shakespeare himself, but it was just coming into its own as a future marker around Shakespeare's time (previously it was used only if the person was going somewhere in order to do something).

The present progressive wasn't used in the passive until the 19th century. Before then people would have said "the house is building" rather than "the house is being built".

I'm pretty sure hath cometh was just as wrong in Shakespeare's day as it is now.

It seems to me that Shakespeare used the auxiliary "to be" where we now would more likely use "to have"--I am come vs. I have come.

Answer 3

many,like shakespeare never used proper grammer. he never said-she hath cometh. means she came. but he says,she had come. no such sentence is right in modern usage. rest look up pls.

Answer 4

Do your own homework.