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.
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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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- Educator Anna Ananichuk
- Director Luke Rotzler
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Sound Designer Sam Bair
- Associate Producer Jessica Ruby
- Content Producer Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Narrator Pen-Pen Chen
