What is the present tense of employ?

Answer 1

The sentence is stated in the present tense. The verb "to be" is conjugated in the present tense as: I am, you (sing.) are, he/she/it is, you (pl.) are, we are, they are. Don't be confused by the fact that the word "employed" is a verb form and happens to be a past form of the verb (known as the past participle). In this use it is an adjective. If you used the same verb all by itself in a sentence, it would be past tense (for example, "My father employed three people in his shop."). It's the structure of the sentence and not just the one word that tells you how to interpret it. SapphireMoon