Tense and timeline

 You can find 12, or even 16, tenses in English.

These two short, reflective pieces struck my fancy. Notice that they are written in a style suitable for newspapers, so have one long sentence per paragraph.

from above:
  1. Simple Present Tense
  2. Present Continuous Tense
  3. Present Perfect Tense
  4. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
  5. Simple Past Tense
  6. Past Continuous Tense
  7. Past Perfect Tense
  8. Past Perfect Continuous Tense
  9. Simple Future Tense
  10. Future Continuous Tense
  11. Future Perfect Tense
  12. Future Perfect Continuous Tense
  13. Past Future Tense
  14. Past Future Continuous Tense
  15. Past Future Perfect Tense
  16. Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense

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