I can't belive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gość: d0minika]

Is it true English has 24 times???????????????? Could you list them? Oh god,
I'm going drown..........

[westpoint]

There should be: I can't believe.
I have no idea is it true that English has 24 times.
Are you talking about "time" or about "tenses" in English grammar?

[Gość: m.a]

Well, if you mean 'tenses' there are only two: past and present. That's all.
But there are many aspects.

[Gość: cheshirecat]

But what about the future tense???

[soup_nazi]

Gość portalu: cheshirecat napisał(a):

> But what about the future tense???

Maybe he has no future, hehehe?

Oh, no! Please!

[soup_nazi]

Gość portalu: m.a napisał(a):

> Well, if you mean 'tenses' there are only two: past and present. That's all.
> But there are many aspects.

Yet another idiot jumping in here to slap on some crap and run away!

there's no such a thing as the universal truth

[Gość: m.a]

There are various linguistic theories, it's up to you which one you support.

Hovewer, linguists reserve the technical term "tense" for true
inflection, i.e, one that produces a real change in a single word, as in
Latin or Spanish, which are inflectional languages and have a lot of
tenses, all encompassed paradigmatically. English really has only two
actual tenses: present (go/goes), and past (went).

However, it's usual to refer to all combinations of 'be'+present participle
and 'have'+ past participle.



"Using `tense' in its narrow linguistic sense, the largest number of
tenses known to exist in any language at present is eleven, in the west
African language Bamileke-Dschang. This has five past tenses,
distinguishing different degrees of remoteness, five future tenses
(likewise), and a present tense." Extraordinary.

[sajjitarius]

Here you go:

Present Simple: I write.
Present Continuous: I am writing.

Present Perfect: I have written.
Present Perfect Continuous: I have been writing.

Past Simple: I wrote.
Past Continuous: I was writing

Past Perfect: I had written.
Past Perfect Continuous: I had been writing

Future Simple: I will write
Future Continuous: I will be writing

Future Perfect: I will have written
Future Perfect Continuous: I will have been writing

Future Simple in the past: I would write
Future Continuous in the past: I would be writing

Future Perfect in the Past: I would have written
Future Perfect in the Past: I woudl have been writing

So 16 tenses altogether. Have fun ;-)

[j_u]

Eeee, mnie sie wydaje, ze klasycznie to jest jakos inaczej:

ACTIVE:
Present Simple: I write.
Present Continuous: I am writing.
Present Perfect: I have written.
Present Perfect Continuous: I have been writing.
Past Simple: I wrote.
Past Continuous: I was writing
Past Perfect: I had written.
Past Perfect Continuous: I had been writing
Future Simple: I will write
Future Continuous: I will be writing
Future Perfect: I will have written
Future Perfect Continuous: I will have been writing
PASSIVE:
Present Simple: The letter is written.
Present Continuous: The letter is being written.
Present Perfect: The letter has been written.
Present Perfect Continuous: The letter has been being written. (eee, mam
nadzieje,ze nie robie bledu)
Past Simple: The letter was written.
Past Continuous: The letter was being written.
Past Perfect: The letter had been written.
Past Perfect Continuous: The letter had been being written.
Future Simple: The letter will be written.
Future Continuous: The letter will be being written.
Future Perfect: The letter will have been written.
Future Perfect Continuous: The letter will have been being written.
Ech. Mam nadzieje, ze sie nie pogubilam ani nie rabnelam gdzies...

[Gość: d0minika]

thanks...........Maybe i start to learn sign language?

believe believe believe believe believe believe - ugly mistake;)

[Gość: wannabekiwi]

Nie przejmuj sie; wiekszosci z tych czasow uzywa sie najwyzej pare razy w zyciu.

[Gość: d0minika]

hehe tell that my teacher (or "tell it"???).

[Gość: wannabekiwi]

Tell that to my teacher or tell it to my teacher

[Gość: d0minika]

ok;)