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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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why only 2 tenses in english?
0 why do some grammarians claim there are only 2 tenses in english: the simple present and the simple past? 0-
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0 I don't know. 02 br 00 By the way: 01 i 00 present simple 02 i 00 and 01 i 00 past simple 02 i 0-
- 0 I don't know.
- 02 br 00 By the way: 01 i 00 present simple 02 i 00 and 01 i 00 past simple 02 i 0-
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0 I don't know. That makes to me no sense. 02 br
00 By the way: 01 i 00 present simple 02 i 00 and 01 i 00 past simple 02 i 0-
00 By the way: 01 i 00 present simple 02 i 00 and 01 i 00 past simple 02 i 0-
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0 Linguists claim that there are only two "real" tenses because a tense is defined by having an inflected verb. This is only the case in Simple Present and Simple Past. The other ones can be derived by adding "going-to", or "will", or "had". That´s why linguists claim that there are only two tenses. By the way, German has got three "real" tenses. 0-
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0 That's possible. But I've got a question. Aren't the tenses called past simple or present simple? I've never heard simple past... 0-
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0 Well, both notions are possible for these tenses. You often find Past Simple or Simple Past in grammars. In Germany we often call these tenses Simple Past and Simple Present..... I think it´s only a matter of different names describing the same phenomena. Well, not really different names 05 0 010id 1
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