Mastering English tenses is crucial for fluency, enabling precise communication of when actions occur. The English tense system organizes time into past, present, and future, each with simple, ...

More recently, present tense is a feature in DBC Pierre’s Vernon God Little and Ian McEwan’s Saturday.It is mobilised to brilliant effect in JM Coetzee’s Disgrace, creating an edgy sort of ...

Abdul Weli from Somalia writes: I would like to know more about the passive. Most reference books say that the present perfect continuous tense has no passive form. Yet, at the same time, we have ...