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 ...

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 ...

This sounds contradictory or unbelievable? You are right if you think so. But don’t forget that, in grammar, there are often exceptions to rules just as specialised usages are an integral part of ...

People who tell the truth retrieve information from their memories. Deceptive people either make up facts or modify facts from truthful events previously stored in their memories. When fabricating ...

Mastering English tenses is crucial for fluency, enabling precise communication of when actions occur. The English tense system organizes time into past, present, and future, each with simple, ...

Most novels are written in the past tense. Readers are more familiar with this tense because they are used to being told a story that has already taken place. For most verbs you add an ‘ed’ at the end ...