Tense

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Verb Tenses

Now that we know about helping verbs and about the principal parts, we can move on to the different tenses of the verb. The tenses allow us to make subtle distinctions about when something is happening.

The following chart provides a quick overview of the twelve different tenses, as applied to both a regular and irregular verb:

For more information about all twelve tenses, please see our detailed introduction to verb tense.