#tense  a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
  supertype:  grammatical_category__grammaticalcategory__syntactic_category__syntacticcategory  a category of words having the same grammatical properties
  subtype:  present_tense__presenttense__present  a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking
     subtype:  historical_present  the use of the present tense to describe past actions or states
  subtype:  aorist  a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek; Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past) without indicating its completion or continuation
  subtype:  past_tense__past  a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
     subtype:  preterit__preterite  a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense
  subtype:  future_tense__future  a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
  subtype:  progressive_tense__progressivetense__progressive__imperfect__imperfect_tense__imperfecttense__continuous_tense  a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
     subtype:  present_progressive_tense__presentprogressivetense__present_progressive__presentprogressive  a tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance
     subtype:  past_progressive_tense__past_progressive  a progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past; "`I had been running' is an example of the past progressive"
     subtype:  future_progressive_tense__future_progressive  a progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future; "`I will be running' is an example of the future progressive"
  subtype:  perfective_tense__perfective__perfect__perfect_tense__perfecttense  a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
     subtype:  present_perfect_tense__presentperfecttense__present_perfect__presentperfect  a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present; "`I have finished' is an example of the present perfect"
     subtype:  past_perfect_tense__past_perfect__pluperfect__pluferfect_tense  a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect"
     subtype:  future_perfect_tense__future_perfect  a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future; "`I will have finished' is an example of the future perfect"

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