Verb Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Tense === Grammatical tense<ref>Comrie, Bernard, ''Tense'', Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985.</ref><ref name="Dahl">[[Γsten Dahl]], ''Tense and Aspect Systems'', Blackwell, 1985.</ref><ref>Fleischman, Suzanne, ''The Future in Thought and Action'', Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982.</ref> is the use of [[auxiliary verb]]s or [[inflection]]s to convey whether the action or state is before, simultaneous with, or after some reference point. The reference point could be the [[time of utterance]], in which case the verb expresses [[absolute tense]], or it could be a past, present, or future time of reference previously established in the sentence, in which case the verb expresses [[relative tense]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page