English Tenses Chart PDF: 12 Tenses With Rules, Uses & Examples. Tenses Chart: Know all about English tenses, types, rules and applications.

English // Two Tenses. Having a single tense would be like having a clock with only one time: It really doesn’t tell you anything, and that’s why there are no single-tense languages.

As author Simon Winchester wrote for The New York Times, there’s one English word in particular that’s deceptively simple: run. As a verb, it boasts a record-setting 645 definitions.