Example sentences for: tenses

How can you use “tenses” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And some have trouble with the sequence of tenses (not a trivial problem, I admit), yielding in this instance what might be called the “son-for-a-day” syndrome:

  • This was accompanied by the (usual) lamentations over the “murder of a fine language,” the generally poor standard of English encountered in the newspapers and on radio and TV, and the observation that “children cannot spell or use the right tenses.”

  • Nevertheless, some elements of Windward speech can be regularized into a sort of grammar, particularly in verb tenses.

  • A comparison of the present tenses of the verb to have and to be yields the following reversals:


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