Are these all 13 tenses?
Are these all the 13 tenses or have I got some wrong?
PRESENT-
1. Present Continuous
2. Present Simple
3. Present Perfect
4. Present Perfect Continuous
FUTURE-
5. Future Simple (going to)
6. Future Simple (will)
7. Future Perfect
8. Future Continuous
9. Future Perfect Continuous
PAST-
10. Past Continuous
11. Past Simple
12. Past Perfect
13. Past Perfect Continuous
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Grammarians debate the number of "tenses" in English. Some (the minimalists) say there are only two tenses, present and past, because English has only two inflected forms. g.
- Grammarians debate the number of "tenses" in English.
- Some (the minimalists) say there are only two tenses, present and past, because English has only two inflected forms.
- g.
- the weak (regular) verbs, walk / walked , and the strong (irregular) verbs, sing/sang .
- All the other verb forms are aspects, voices and moods; these are not tenses.
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Grammarians debate the number of "tenses" in English.
Some (the minimalists) say there are only two tenses, present and past, because English has only two inflected forms. These can be regular or irregular, e.g. the weak (regular) verbs, walk / walked, and the strong (irregular) verbs, sing/sang. All the other verb forms are aspects, voices and moods; these are not te
0red piano 24Are these all the 13 tenses
Most sources omit "going to", your number 5, and say that there are 12 tenses. It is quite unusual to call the idiom "going to" a tense.
It is also fairly usual to list them in the order Present, Past, Future rather than the order you used.
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