What tense is this?
Is this a future tense or present tense?
'I shouldn't be travelling/living.'
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BulbulTada Is this a future tense or present tense? ' It contains a modal verb ( shouldn't ), so it has no true tense. You use 'should' as you use a present tense, however.
- BulbulTada Is this a future tense or present tense?
- ' It contains a modal verb ( shouldn't ), so it has no true tense.
- You use 'should' as you use a present tense, however.
- It can express either present or future time.
- CJ
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BulbulTadaIs this a future tense or present tense?
'I shouldn't be travelling/living.'
It contains a modal verb (shouldn't), so it has no true tense. You use 'should' as you use a present tense, however. It can express either present or future time.
CJ
0BulbulTadaIs this a future tense or present tense?
'I shouldn't be travelling/living.'
Syntactically it is past tense, since "should" is a preterite (past tense) modal verb ("shall" is the present tense form).
That it's a past tense form is evident from the fact that it's the form required in backshift (I knew I should fi
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