present tense
noun
(in English) the simple present.
present tenses
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pluralof present tense.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Some of these climate change harms have been warned about for years, even decades, and have become reality, now written in the past and present tenses.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
There are two present tenses, an imperfect, two perfects, a pluperfect, a present and a past frequentative, and three futures besides future perfect; there are also conjunctive and optative forms.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
"Yes," I said, "I give him the whip, Gump," and luckily the old man could not distinguish between the past and present tenses of the verb, so that I was spared a lie.
From A Soldier of Virginia by Burton Egbert Stevenson
Language Lesson.—Let pupils rewrite the first paragraph of the lesson, changing past tenses to present tenses throughout.
From New National Fourth Reader by Charles J. Barnes
The present tenses is and tha never take the do before them.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart
