Tenses Quotes
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On her recently widowed father's much younger wife: My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.
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Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done? Reports are now written in four tenses: past tense, present tense, future tense, and pretense. Watch for novel uses of CONGRAM (CONtractor GRAMmer), defined by the past imperfect, the present insufficient, and the future absolutely perfect.
