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Guest Posted 22 years ago
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What tense is this please?

Sorry, I'm going to see Hamlet at the national theater

i wrote present participle but i dont think thats a tense.
any help please?
  

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going IS known as the present participle, but a participle is NOT a tense... the "sense" of this is that the events will happen in the future, so you can probably call it the future tense, depends on your teacher, as there is a debate about whether or not English HAS a present tense! LOL

  • going IS known as the present participle, but a participle is NOT a tense...
  • the "sense" of this is that the events will happen in the future, so you can probably call it the future tense, depends on your teacher, as there is a debate about whether or not English HAS a present tense!
  • LOL
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going IS known as the present participle, but a participle is NOT a tense...

the "sense" of this is that the events will happen in the future, so you can probably call it the future tense, depends on your teacher, as there is a debate about whether or not English HAS a present tense! LOL

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