Guest  +  5165 Thu, 21 Aug 03 02:48 PM how many tenses are there in english? Guest Tenses

	Pemmican  +  5184 Thu, 21 Aug 03 08:10 PM As far as I know, there are these 13 tenses: a) Past Perfect Progressive ........................had been + present participle b) Past Perfect ..........................................had + past participle c) Past Progressive ...................................was/were + present participle d) Simple Past ..........................................past tense form e) Present Perfect Progressive ...................have/has been + present participle f) Present Perfect .....................................have/has + past participle g)Present Progressive .................................am/is/are + present participle h)Simple Present ........................................present tense form = almost same form as infinitive (except "to be"); when used with he/she/it: +(e)s (except modal helping verbs) i)will-Future ...............................................will + infinitive j)will-Future Progressive .............................will be + present participle k)will-Future Perfect ...................................will have + past participle l)will-Future Perfect Progressive ..................will have been + present participle m)Going-to-Future ......................................am/is/are going to + infinitive Sometimes, the Conditionals are also said to be tenses, but those are just modi of an actual tense, no tenses themselves. Pemmican Joined on Thu, Aug 21 2003 Regular Member 569 Wâ mag ich mich nu vinden? wâ mac ich mich nu suochen, wâ? nu bin ich hie und bin ouch dâ und enbin doch weder dâ noch hie. wer wart ouch sus verirret ie? wer wart ie sus... Simple Present, Present Progressive, Verbs, Tenses, Present Tenses, Past Perfect, Modals, Simple Past, Present Perfect, Past Tenses, Conditionals, Helping Verbs, Perfect Progressive, Future Progressive

	moijelesuis  +  5192 Thu, 21 Aug 03 09:33 PM good answer pemmican regarding the conditionals... the same can be said for the all but (sadly) extinct subjunctive in english (which is present tense, except for "were", the past subjunctive of "to be") moijelesuis Joined on Sat, Aug 16 2003 usa/canada Full Member 116 Tenses, Present Tenses, Subjunctives, Conditionals

	paco2004  +  115995 Wed, 06 Jul 05 10:13 PM The number of English tenses depends on how one defines "tense". If one defines it as morphemes of verbs, English has only two tenses: past and present.   paco paco2004 Joined on Wed, Nov 17 2004 Senior Member 4,095 In Japan today even dogs are learning how to bow-wow in English. Verbs, Tenses, Morphemes

	viognier  +  116063 Thu, 07 Jul 05 03:01 AM Hi Pemmican ;-) You could add: m') Going-to-Future in the past ....................... was/were going to + infinitive m) Going-to-Future ...................................... am/is/are going to + infinitive m'') Going-to-Future in the future .................... will be going to + infinitive We may add: n)Habituality in the past ...............................used to + infinitive Hi paco ：） I agree with your first sentence. As to second one, I respectfully and faithfully disagree with you. Dealing with some grammatical category of verb, we not necessarily have to confine "morphological (=grammaticalized) forms in "inflectional" one, I think. And my argument is based on "Cours de morphologie générale." Vol.1, by Igor Mel'cuk (1993). (Translated from Russian. It's the best morphological theory ever, I think!) See you later and have a good day. viognier Joined on Tue, Jul 5 2005 Junior Member 76 Verbs, Tenses

	Eimai_Anglos  +  116374 Fri, 08 Jul 05 02:10 AM QUOTE: we not necessarily have to... We do not necessarily have to... (No idea why, but that's how we would say it!) Eimai_Anglos Joined on Thu, Jun 23 2005 Regular Member 509 Martin - native English speaker and technical author. Tenses

	viognier  +  116411 Fri, 08 Jul 05 05:12 AM Thank you Very Much, Eimai_Anglos. Writing this sentence, I wasn't sure at all about its correctness ：）, so I'm really glad to get your kind help! Very cheery day or evening to you ;-) viognier Tenses

	paco2004  +  116476 Fri, 08 Jul 05 08:40 AM Hello Viognier  viognier wrote: Dealing with some grammatical category of verb, we not necessarily have to confine "morphological (=grammaticalized) forms in "inflectional" one, I think. I'm sorry but I couldn't get well what you are saying. Could you explain it in a more detailed way? paco   paco2004 Verbs, Tenses