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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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how many tenses in english

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Anonymous how many tenses in english How many tenses are there in English? It depends on how you count, and who is counting. The minimalists say two (present and past), because all the other forms are verb phrases which use auxiliary verbs, not one inflected form of a base verb.

  • Anonymous how many tenses in english How many tenses are there in English?
  • It depends on how you count, and who is counting.
  • The minimalists say two (present and past), because all the other forms are verb phrases which use auxiliary verbs, not one inflected form of a base verb.
  • At the opposite end of the spectrum, some count not only the future, progressive and perfect forms, but voices and moods as well.
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Anonymous how many tenses in english
How many tenses are there in English?

It depends on how you count, and who is counting.

The minimalists say two (present and past), because all the other forms are verb phrases which use auxiliary verbs, not one inflected form of a base verb.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, some count not only the

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