Questions tagged [present-tense]
The present tense is a grammatical tense that locates a situation or event in present time.
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Use of tense in a completed project description [migrated]
I am preparing a project portfolio for a job application in which I describe some of my completed projects in my current role. While the software is still in use today, the projects themselves are ...
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On whether the subjunctive mood in present is correctly understood here and whether is correct to test it in analogy with Spanish subjunctive mood
I need to apply the subjunctive mood in present time in some translations from Spanish. I should do this, and although I know the common thing to do is to avoid it, this is a literary translation and ...
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Present simple or future conditional
While writing a research proposal, I encountered the following issue. Consider the following two variants:
Present simple:
I would like to measure X. Finding evidence that X is large is helpful to ...
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Difference between gerund and a present participle [duplicate]
I saw him dancing. In this sentence is dancing a present participle or a gerund?
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"Timetable future": Why are "I leave at 8 pm" & "I am leaving at 8 pm" OK but not "I eat a pizza at 6 pm" & "I am eating a pizza at 6 pm"?
These four sentences have the same meaning (ignoring perhaps some subtleties/nuances):
I will be leaving at 8 pm.
I will leave at 8 pm.
I leave at 8 pm.
I am leaving at 8 pm.
I understand from "...
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A word for when you ask someone to stop helping even though they have good intentions
I need a verb that describes asking someone to stop helping you, even though you know they mean well, because it's not helpful. So you ask them in a way that is almost pleading. It's stronger than ...
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At this time tomorrow, I am playing cricket [closed]
I know that:
At this time tomorrow, I will be playing cricket.
is used since the so-called future continuous is used to talk about a continuous activity at a specific time in the future. Even ...
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Which tense to choose [closed]
There are a couple of sentences:
The water froze and caused the pipe to burst.
If it is a succession of past events it should be Past Simple.
But if the first part happened earlier, it should be :
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Why is the present tense used in "Last year he's MVP"?
Why is the last sentence in the passage below, "Last year he's MVP", written in the present tense?
'Hey, Ding Dong,' he calls. 'Who won the ball game?'
'Brooklyn wins it in a romp, ...
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SImple present to talk about the future [duplicate]
Here is my question, are both of the following acceptable?
I start dieting after Christmas.
I will start dieting after Christmas.
This is the task from Oxford English Grammar Advanced.
Note: I know ...
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Why "orders" NOT ("have ordered"/ "ordered") [duplicate]
I have read this title
Pakistan top court orders immediate release of ex-PM Imran Khan.
Why they have written "orders" in present simple? I mean why not in present perfect or simple past?
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What are the rules of copular "to be" tense in pseudo-cleft sentences?
What are the rules for the tense usage of copular "to be" in pseudo-cleft sentences?
I have several examples:
What I didn't like was the end of the movie. --> was
What changed his mind ...
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Present Simple instead of Present Perfect in colloquial speech
I was recently watching " The Last of Us" series and was pretty perplexed when Ellie asked Joel "You ever play this one?" pointing to the old Mortal Combat arcade. It was so ...
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Using "since" + year/date with the present simple [closed]
Is it ever acceptable to use the present simple in a sentence with "since [year/date]"?
For example:
"Since 2012, environmental regulations have to be evaluated every three years."...
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Is it idiomatic to shift from present progressive to present simple within single sentence? [duplicate]
One of my friends while writing a passage wrote the following sentence that contained both present progressive and present simple tense within a single sentence:
Road accidents are happening because ...
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