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What is verbal tense?

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A temporal grammatical category expressing the time when an action (or a state) takes, will take or took place.

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Verbal tense refers to the time period in which an action is happening or has happened. There are three main tenses in English: past, present, and future. Each tense helps to clarify when an action occurred in relation to the present.

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