Showing posts with label Uses of Tense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uses of Tense. Show all posts

Monday, February 15, 2016

Time and Tense

Difference between Time & Tense: Time and Tense are two different things. Time means Past time, Present time and Future time. The time is directed as past, present and future in the whole world. Its concept is free from language or grammar. This is a non-grammatical thing, which human beings used to feel even those days when they didn't know any languages. In the contrary, Tense is  totally a grammatical thing. Tense is the study of the forms of the verbs. The structure and treatment of Tense is different in different languages, but the concept of Time is equal to all. I am buying a car next year - In this sentence, the verb is of present tense but it is indicating the future time. The fact is that, the verb in this sentence is of present, still it is showing future time. If both the Time and the Tense were equal, then present tense would show the present time not the future. Exactly Time and Tense are two different things.

Uses of Tense:  Now we are going to understand some main uses of each tense.