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+ | reference of one period of time to another in sentence. The most often referred to tenses are past, present, and future. In other languages there are more than 3 tenses. An example would be Spanish which has present, indicative, present, subjunctive, imperfect indicative, and others. These tense are marked by morphological changes and by auxiliaries. | ||
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+ | Crystal, David, and David Crystal. The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin, 1999. | ||
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+ | Matthews, P. H. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. | ||
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Revision as of 14:42, 11 November 2009
reference of one period of time to another in sentence. The most often referred to tenses are past, present, and future. In other languages there are more than 3 tenses. An example would be Spanish which has present, indicative, present, subjunctive, imperfect indicative, and others. These tense are marked by morphological changes and by auxiliaries.
References
Crystal, David, and David Crystal. The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin, 1999.
Matthews, P. H. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.