Is there anything like present tense?

Question

The past tense is all that has passed and the future is all that is going to come, right? If so, than the micro millisecond that passed when i wrote the word before the word that you are reading now is past tense and the micro millisecond just after that is future tense for when i was writing that word, right? So when is the present tense? Where Where Where? Did I right anything in present tense?

Hope you get the question.

Answer 1

one more person who confuses "time" and "tense"

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maybe it's a worldwide secret but it's not about time, it's about the actions in the speech

"i've wrote a book", "i write a book" and "i'm writing a book" have no relation to micro-, mili- or nano- seconds

Answer 2

there is present tense. present tense means that it is done at the very moment it is said.

Answer 3

First, the correlation between grammatical tense and real world time is not perfect. Present tense can be used to describe a future event in English:

This train departs at 6:30 this evening.

Mary flies to Montreal next Tuesday.

These are usually scheduled events, not predictions. So we cannot say

*It rains tomorrow morning.

(Unless maybe you're Mother Nature having a conversation with God.)

You can also use present tense to describe a past event:

So my friend goes into this bar and he asks the waitress for a beer...

This use of the present tense is usually restricted to narratives. Present tense can also be used to describe states and habitual activities:

I'm hungry.

Susan is smart.

John is fat.

Mary eats apples (every morning).

Joe drinks coffee with cream and sugar in the morning and black in the evening.

These statements describe an ongoing state of affairs that is true at the time the speaker uttered them. The present is also used for ongoing activities.

Mary is eating an apple.

Now, you might ask, if Mary is eating an apple (right now), she was also eating an apple a few seconds ago (in the past) and will most likely be eating an apple in a few seconds (in the future). So why does present tense marking win out? This is a good question that many linguists are working on. One widely held theory is that tense marking (on events - not on states) marks the relationship between event time and utterance time. If the event time and utterance time overlap, then present tense marking is used. If the entire event time precedes the utterance time, then past tense marking is used. There are of course complications. These complications are the subject of ongoing research in the linguistics of tense and aspect.

Here's some more info with a list of references.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical...

Answer 4

I get the question, and it's completely ridiculous. Get over it.

Answer 5

Well, English distinguishes between the Present Progressive tense, which covers an action currently in progress (NOW), and the Simple Present tense, which is used to describe habitual behavior or general descriptions.

Answer 6

I think your answer is not be reflected necessarily in the hourly time manner, but in the daily manner.  For example, you can erase your past tense in the present tense, meaning, if you are thinking of milliseconds way.  But you can not erase the past tense in days manner.  What you did yesterday you can not undo metaphorically speaking.

For example, you can not uneat what you ate yesterday, and I am not talking about "uneating" in the bathroom.  But you can undo most things you did in a millisecond.  For example, rewriting my past sentences.  And that would be the present tense still.

So, think always as present in the present day, not in milliseconds.  I have written sentences today and I will erase them today and will rewrite them in a second.   jAlso, I am still writing and rewriting these sentences.  All is perfect present.  Comprende?