How many verb tenses are there in English? - Anna Ananichuk
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How many different verb tenses are there in a language like English? At first, the answer seems obvious — there’s past, present, and future. But it isn't quite that simple. Anna Ananichuk explains how thanks to something called grammatical aspect, each of those time periods actually divides further.
When we use reported speech to talk about what other people told us in the past, we tend to change Past Simple verbs to Past Perfect. For example: “I saw Laura yesterday,” he told me vs. He told me he had seen Laura the day before. How would you explain that?
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