Woman in red cardigan: People do get their tenses of a verb confused. Making sure that the verb is in the same tense all the way through a document or a letter or an email. If you read it to yourself ...

A lot of adults gave up on grammar long ago. They didn’t learn as much as they would have liked in school. Now there’s too much too learn. Amid a sea of gibberish about sentence-ending prepositions, ...

No matter how long you’ve been speaking English, no matter how hard you’ve worked to perfect your grammar, some past tense verbs can stump you. For example, the day after you decide to grin and bear ...

Tense Chart: Mastering English tenses is essential for writing and speaking accurately. Tenses help us express time, actions, and ideas clearly. With proper knowledge of tenses and sentence formation, ...

Tenses MCQs for Class 9: Tenses are one of the most important grammar topics in Class 9 English. For the upcoming CBSE Class 9 Half Yearly Exam 2025, students must practise different types of ...

A handy list of links to resources for teaching tenses Stage 4: Talking about the weather. Grammar Tip: Simple and continuous forms of the present tense. Stage 6: Lost property. Grammar Tip: Simple ...

Have you ever felt that English could use a couple more tenses to truly capture the nuances of the past, present, and future? We’re inviting you on an exploration of languages that have taken verb ...

Sometimes you know a word has two forms, but you 're not sure which one is appropriate to use in the situation at hand. This happens a lot with verbs, where past-tense forms can compete for acceptance ...

Howard: Something doesn’t make sense. Look. In 2015 Biff steals the Sports Almanac and takes the time machine back to 1955 to give it to his younger self. But as soon as he does that he changes the ...

The preterite tense is used if the past action had a definite beginning and definite end and is often used with phrases that give a specific time frame, eg: ...