Tense (definition)

Tense is the reference of one period of time to another in sentence. The most often referred to tenses are past, present, and [[Future Tense (definition)|future). These tense are marked by morphological changes and by auxiliaries. In Gaelic, Most verbs have only a past or future form. The verb bi also has a present tense form (Tha, A' bheil, Chan eil, Nach eil). The present tense in Gaelic for other verbs is formed using periphrastic constructions.

External Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_tense

References

• Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.
• Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.