Let's talk a little more about the English tenses. Although English doesn't have complicated conjugations, the tenses can be tricky to use.
And tenses are important in English. They carry a lot of meaning!
English uses tenses where other languages might use adverbs:
- to show if an action is finished or not,
- to show if a state is temporary or permanent,
- to show if an action is a habit and what kind of habit,
- to show if an action is repeated or happens only once,
- to be more or less polite.
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