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 ...

The word 'tense' comes from 'tempus', the Latin word for time. Some languages like Mandarin Chinese don’t have verb tenses but express time in different ways. When writing, it’s important to use the ...

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 ...

Answer these questions and find out just how good you are with the use of tenses in English! Illustration: Uttam Ghosh 'She is waiting for us at the restaurant.' 'They spent the night at a roadside ...

Subject-verb agreement means that your verb must be conjugated, or changed, to fit (or agree) with the subject. Subjects can be singular or plural. Think of singular and plural as mathematical ...

GRAMMARIANS had once a simple way of disposing of the subject on which Professor Goodwin has given us this elaborate treatise of three hundred pages. In the Greek Grammar of the Messieurs de Port ...

One’s tense will vary depending on what one is trying to convey within their paper or section of their paper. For example, the tense may change between the methods section and the discussion section.