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 ...

A verb’s tense is determined by when the action takes place, which could be in the past, present or the future. To make most verbs past tense, you can add the suffix, ‘ed’. ‘The last time adventurous ...