Tense is a grammatical concept that indicates the time of an action or event expressed by a verb. It provides information about when something happens, whether in the past, present, or future. Tense helps convey the timing of actions or states in communication, making sentences meaningful and clear by situating events in time.
In English, there are three main tenses:
- Present tense for actions happening now or generally true,
- Past tense for actions that happened before the current time,
- Future tense for actions that will happen later.
Each of these tenses can be further divided into different forms to express nuances of time and aspect, such as simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous.
