what is a verb tense?

Question

verb tense

Answer 1

Whether it's past, present or happening now.

I ran, I'm running now, I will run

Answer 2

A "tense" means the time in which the action took or will take place.
In English you have the two present tenses: The "I work" form is what happens regularly and the "I am working" form which says what is happening now. A good example of the difference between the two would be: "He smokes 10 cigarettes a day but right now he is not smoking".
Then there is the Perfect Tense which started in the past but continues into the present, e.g., "I have worked here for 10 years" which means I still work here, and the Preterite tense which started and ended in the past, e.g., "I worked there for 10 years". This indicates that you no longer work there.
Then there is the pluperfect tense which started in the past before something else in the past, e.g., We had seen that film in the cinema before we watched the DVD."
And most difficult of all is the future tense formed either with "will" or "going to", e.g., "We are going to buy the tickets tomorrow" or "If you come next week, we will meet you at the station." But sometimes we express the future with the present tense, e.g., "I am seeing him next week." "We are buying the tickets next week."
And if that isn't complicated enough for poor foreigners learning English, every one of those time periods can be expressed in the regular or in the continuous forms:
"We will buy the tickets next week."
"We will be buying the tickets next week".
"We buy tickets from the travel agent."
"We are buying the tickets from the travel agent"
We shopped all morning".
"We were shopping all morning, when ..."
"We have bought the tickets."
"We have been buying tickets this morning"
"We had bought the tickets then they dropped the price."
We had been shopping when the rain started."

And finally, all of these tenses and forms also occur in the Passive voice: The tickets were bought for us by the travel agent" and so on.

Answer 3

Basically it is when an action is taking place. In English there are three basic tenses the past, present or future. Each tense has a simple, perfect and progressive form.
The perfect form indicates a completed action;
The progressive form indicates an ongoing action; and
The perfect progressive form indicates an ongoing action that will be completed at some definite time.

The links below explain this well.

Answer 4

Tense is as in past, present or future. Verb "to go" for example. I went. I go. I shall go

Answer 5

A verb tense gives a reference of whether something is occurring in the past ,the present or the future.
for example: the verb ask
-- I asked a question --past
-- I am asking a question --present
-- I am going to ask a question -- future

-ran,run, running
-do, did, doing
-play, played, playing
-jump,jumped,jumping

Get it? Hope this helps

Answer 6

A Verb tense is a form of a verb that represents what time you are doing.

Present: I am answering your question.
The verb is answering.

Past: I have answered your question.
The verb is answered.

Furture: I will answer your question.
The verb is answer.

Answer 7

whether it's past, present, future or conditional.

Answer 8

present, past, future. perfect past and present.

Answer 9

present is happning now

Answer 10

well... simply it tells when the action has been done or will it ever happen...