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>present tense

>> No.18597555
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>language without tenses

>> No.18597559

Are there any books where the first part is past tense, then there's one sentence that's present tense, and then the rest is future tense?

>> No.18597573

>>18597539
Thanks for you shitpost, brought back a great couple sentences I wrote like a month ago but forgot before I could write it down. Had been driving me nuts since it ties in wonderfully with both plot and theme in my novel.

Frogposters still suck and rarely post anything of worth, but you are not completely useless. My phone tries to autocorrect frogposter as troglodyte, is it showing me a greater truth?

>> No.18597587

I still don't understand where and how to use Present Perfect.

>t. esl

>> No.18597615

>>18597587
After past perfect and before future perfect.

>> No.18597624

>>18597587
In American English at least it's basically just synonymous with the past tense. The meaning is mostly lost. I think some dialects still use it in more of the traditional way defined by grammatical tradition.

>> No.18597654

>>18597624
Nah, it is used for thing which move from past to present or have an indefinite relation to the past.

>he came to understand present perfect since he posted
>we have gone over this before