2006-09-08 04:17:51 · 3 answers · asked by ganatra zil jitendrabhai 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
Tenses (note spelling) refer to the verbs in a sentence, and tell you when something happened.
For example, if you say "I am writing a letter" it means you are doing it at this moment, and that is in the present tense.
If you say "I am going to write a letter" that means you will do it sometime in the future, but you are not doing it at this moment. That is the future tense.
Or you can say "I wrote a letter" which means you have already done it, and that is the past tense.
There are a great many more tenses -- conditional etc. -- but these are the three basic tenses.
Is English7 seventh grade English?
2006-09-08 10:59:14 · answer #1 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is 'Tense', not 'tence'. And what is this english7 grammer buddy? Anyway, try Googling for answers.
2006-09-08 04:32:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tense refers to the use of verbs or action words in the past, present or future. The simplest case is probably the verb "to be"
Past tense - we were
Present tense- we are
Future tense - we will be
2006-09-08 05:15:02 · answer #3 · answered by ligoneskiing 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋