The only thing you know for sure is the present tense.

And knew she'd wanted me to hear the present tense.

Doing a lot in the present tense at the moment.

Yet I use the present tense for no good reason.

She goes on to speak of him, often in the present tense.

There is no reason why the present tense cannot be used.

Would anyone who lives in the present tense want to talk about it?

His family still talks about him in the present tense.

The present tense construction also has more than just one use.

Thought about what else I needed to say and forced myself to use the present tense.

Even the use of the present tense in the title is a risk.

Bush talked in the present tense and spoke to the heart.

You can also use it to describe something in the present tense.

For no particular reason, he writes in the first person and the present tense.

It is natural to use the present tense, because we live in her presence.

The language itself was basically all in the present tense, as if they had no need of a past or future.

The reviewed life is set up in the present tense.

The present tense was out of place in this landscape.

Yet now he had hesitated to speak in the present tense.

The first rule is that you only speak in the present tense.

I was always fascinated by the history but never thought of it in the present tense.

I stayed there a while longer, then went back up to the house, ready for the present tense.

"All I care about is the present tense," he said.

At other times the story is told in the present tense, using the voices of talking animals.

"He is really a great guy, and if you notice, I'm still using the present tense."

Present tenses are occasionally found later in Q as originally typed.

Arsa (says/said), can only be used in past or present tenses.

The novel changes between third-person omniscient past and present tenses.

There are 3 present tenses, 8 future and 7 past, with various voice, aspect and mood modifications.

(Beginning grammars for foreigners sometimes call the first two "past and present tenses", but this is not accurate.)

In Georgian, the main function of a preverb is to distinguish between the present tenses and the future tenses.

The present continuous is one of the present tenses used in modern English, the others being the simple present and the emphatic present.

Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture.

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These present tenses would probably not have occurred had not my father been imposing the past tense on thought that was not in fact so definite.

The present tenses of Portuguese and Spanish are similar in form, and are used in similar ways.

"This is a serious blow to continuing dialogue within the Jewish community," said Ann Roife, a columnist for Present Tense.

As Michiko and her son retrace her husband's steps that day, they shift between past and present tenses, dwelling mostly in the present.

The typescript had present tenses, finds, cannot, begs, early emended to found, could not, begged; an indication that my father was closely following the S manuscript.

The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy: 2010 Atlantic Book Awards.

This soft-spoken, literate book has the pleasures of historicity - no common thing in these days of novelists trapped in present times and present tenses.

Having admitted this, let me rush to add that most of what follows is actually worded as I first inscribed it, with only some proper names and present tenses changed.

The Gate Behind the Wall, was honored with the Present Tense Magazine Literary Award for the best book of 1984 in the "Religious Thought" category.

Besides he started to create music for new Turkish TV series like "The Bridge" and "Present Tenses" and "Dede Korkut's Stories"...

Unusual Punctuation And Leaps in Time Not only does this dispense with orthodox punctuation, like question marks or quotation marks for dialogue, but also it hops between past and present tenses.

The structure in a paragraph forms a numeric pattern that repeats throughout the book; there is also a pattern in relation to Hemsley's use of first and third person, and, past and present tenses.

J.B. KLINE AND SON GALLERY "Work in the Present Tense," exhibition of paintings by Carol Magnatta and Valerie Ziegler.

'It's no matter,' said Mr Pancks, 'I merely wish to remark that the task this Proprietor has set me, has been never to leave off conjugating the Imperative Mood Present Tense of the verb To keep always at it.

Lisa Kron's "Well," on the other hand, seemed to wander all over the place as its autobiographical narrator (portrayed by the author) shifted between past and present tenses and among dizzyingly varied memories of growing up with her energetic invalid of a mother (the wonderful Jayne Houdyshell).

Anthony DeCurtis, author of Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture (1992) wrote that "Madonna and Janet Jackson have produced videos that explore the female gaze," and described Jackson's music video for "Nasty" as feminist theory on film that deconstructs the objectification of women.