THE three perfect tenses in English — the present perfect, the past perfect, and the future perfect — capture the idea that one event or occurrence happened or happens before another time or event in ...

The present tense describes what's happening now. Depuis is used with the present tense to say how long something has been happening. Learn how to form sentences using the present tense. Key verbs - ...

Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Mar., 1994), pp. 111-157 (47 pages) This study examines grammatical and discourse-pragmatic reflexes of the existential and resultative readings of the English ...