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单词 present tense
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Definition of present tense in English:

present tense

noun
Grammar
  • A tense expressing an action that is currently going on or habitually performed, or a state that currently or generally exists.

    I'm using the present tense
    Wolf Hall is written in the present tense
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Singapore is a very ahistorical society; it seems to live only in the present tense, and claims no need for the past, let alone a sophisticated consciousness of history.
    • The sudden shift at the end from the present tense to the conditional and qualified suggests that the epiphany that the poem seems to promise is a transient thing.
    • The novel concludes with a coda which switches dramatically from the past to the present tense: 'And now the three years are past.'
    • She returns to Paris, continues lecturing at the university and talks about him in the present tense, as if nothing has happened.
    • Hence, the shift to the character's present tense is not drastic or striking.
    • Many refer to him in the present tense and, when pushed on the company's future course, still invoke his name.
    • This promise, which after all says "nor do we", not "nor will we", is restricted entirely to the present tense.
    • Dostoevsky smoothes the transition from the usual narrative past tense to the present tense used here by preceding this passage with lengthy narrative digression in which the narrator refers to his own present situation (writing).
    • When, then, we come to "I am falling," with its abrupt change from past to present tense, we see this bookish, "mothy" robed poet, who had spun out of his orbit in leaving New England, as threatened by a wider and wider spin.
    • It's to place the reader right there in the present tense and to create an awareness that this is unfolding right in front of me.
    • The present tense in Japanese is both the simple present tense as well as the future tense, while the past tense in Japanese acts as the simple past tense.
    • The real challenge was translating a written plan into the present tense.
    • It is particularly hard to write about a man whose every quote is a gem and who always aimed to write intensely in the present tense, sucking his reader into the here and now even when he wrote about things of the past.
    • Speaking in the present tense so as to convey the force and immediacy of his impressions, he describes how a "shock, as of some unimagined vital force, shoots without warning through my entire frame, leaping to my fingers' ends, piercing my brain, startling me till I almost spring from my chair".
    • Narrated in the present tense, the story unfolds in the voice of an unnamed third-person narrator.
    • The lapse into present tense ('I know') indicates subsequent intimacy.
    • Write in the present tense.
    • That is why an entire novel cast in the present tense would seem much more unusual in English than in Czech.
    • One trademark of his "new" technique is polyphony, in which multiple voices tell the story and shift without authorial intrusion from first-person to third or from past to present tense.
    • You'll notice the 'will' - future tense, not present tense.
 
 

Definition of present tense in US English:

present tense

noun
Grammar
  • A tense expressing an action that is currently going on or habitually performed, or a state that currently or generally exists.

    I'm using the present tense
    Wolf Hall is written in the present tense
    Example sentencesExamples
    • You'll notice the 'will' - future tense, not present tense.
    • The present tense in Japanese is both the simple present tense as well as the future tense, while the past tense in Japanese acts as the simple past tense.
    • One trademark of his "new" technique is polyphony, in which multiple voices tell the story and shift without authorial intrusion from first-person to third or from past to present tense.
    • The novel concludes with a coda which switches dramatically from the past to the present tense: 'And now the three years are past.'
    • The real challenge was translating a written plan into the present tense.
    • Narrated in the present tense, the story unfolds in the voice of an unnamed third-person narrator.
    • The sudden shift at the end from the present tense to the conditional and qualified suggests that the epiphany that the poem seems to promise is a transient thing.
    • This promise, which after all says "nor do we", not "nor will we", is restricted entirely to the present tense.
    • Many refer to him in the present tense and, when pushed on the company's future course, still invoke his name.
    • It's to place the reader right there in the present tense and to create an awareness that this is unfolding right in front of me.
    • It is particularly hard to write about a man whose every quote is a gem and who always aimed to write intensely in the present tense, sucking his reader into the here and now even when he wrote about things of the past.
    • When, then, we come to "I am falling," with its abrupt change from past to present tense, we see this bookish, "mothy" robed poet, who had spun out of his orbit in leaving New England, as threatened by a wider and wider spin.
    • Dostoevsky smoothes the transition from the usual narrative past tense to the present tense used here by preceding this passage with lengthy narrative digression in which the narrator refers to his own present situation (writing).
    • Singapore is a very ahistorical society; it seems to live only in the present tense, and claims no need for the past, let alone a sophisticated consciousness of history.
    • Speaking in the present tense so as to convey the force and immediacy of his impressions, he describes how a "shock, as of some unimagined vital force, shoots without warning through my entire frame, leaping to my fingers' ends, piercing my brain, startling me till I almost spring from my chair".
    • Hence, the shift to the character's present tense is not drastic or striking.
    • That is why an entire novel cast in the present tense would seem much more unusual in English than in Czech.
    • She returns to Paris, continues lecturing at the university and talks about him in the present tense, as if nothing has happened.
    • Write in the present tense.
    • The lapse into present tense ('I know') indicates subsequent intimacy.
 
 
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