By Inflections, Present perfect

Hello, please let me put in a word here! You all have presented own standpoint clearly, and I feel like getting my ideas in order, too. As I said earlier I'm not a linguist yet, so I myself want to know my standpoint. These terms (i.e. grammar, semantics, syntax, pragmatics,...

Re: using "perfect" and "pluperfect" as tenses based on Latin. Sorry, merhdad, I don't quite seize your point. Normally we say "present perfect" and "past perfect" for these tenses, not "pluperfect". But regardless of the names, yes, it's true that English is much more dominated by analytic...

Very true, Aeolus29. There are only two tense inflections in English - the "s" for the present (only for third person singular), and the "ed" for the past. In this sense there are only two tenses. All the other verbal machinery of English depends on combining auxiliaries and/or modals with the...

For my home grammar assignment I am to "describe the form of the verb phrases in the following sentences (:finiteness, tense, modality, aspect, voice): 1. The house had been painted a bright red before it was sold. 2. Pigeons will be nesting on the statue's head. 3. It is good to have seen them...