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present tense

In grammar, the form a verb takes to express action that is taking place at the present moment.

The present tense can be applied to any subject which is performing an action, for example the present tense of the verb to go is applicable to the first, second, and third person: I go; you go; he/she/it goes; we go; you (plural) go; they go.



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Is it not more like a continuous present, reworking a lexicon of forms only occasionally to new purpose?
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If we live in what is often described as a continuous present, it may be because contemporary culture functions as little more than one long dissociative moment.
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Recovering memory is what the writer she is likes to do, drawing recalled images from the past into the continuous present where they connive to suggest the future.
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