Is "I have decided!" Past tense (meaning that when the person says it, they are referring to the past when the person made the decision to do whatever they are doing)?
I have decided! You need to separate tense from time . Tenses are the grammatical names for certain configurations of verbs.
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I have decided!
You need to separate tense from time. Tenses are the grammatical names for certain configurations of verbs. Time is the real phenomenon of whether something occurs in the past, is occurring in the present, or is expected to occur in the future.
It's not past tense. It's called "present perfect tense".
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