The present tense describes an event which is currently taking place, regularly takes place or a state that currently exists. To put a verb into the present tense, an understanding of the different ...

The word 'tense' comes from 'tempus', the Latin word for time. Some languages like Mandarin Chinese don’t have verb tenses but express time in different ways. When writing, it’s important to use the ...

Last week, the Daily Telegraph printed a story headlined "Philip Pullman and Philip Hensher criticise Booker prize for including present-tense novels". Not for the first time, a statement bellowed ...