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present tense

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  • "Has the #5 bus arrived yet?" "Yeah, youdidn't make it."(past tense)
  • "The bus is too far away. Ican't make it."(present tense)
  • "I see the #5 bus across the street. Iwon’t make it."(future tense)

presenttense (pluralpresent tenses)

  1. (grammar) A grammatical tense whose principal function is to locate a situation or event in the present time.
    • 1998 March 30, Lance Morrow, “The Trouble With The Present Tense”, inTime[1]:
      Animals—lions and zebras and beautiful snakes—live vividly in thepresent tense, in a bright unconsciousness of time. That is their innocence and their limitation. Humans carry with them their experiences, their pasts; men and women work with a knowledge of consequences and, doing so, impose order on the chaotic present and project consequences into the future.

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