"Tense is the distinction of time: there are six tenses.

For example: "The Future Tense is the form of the verb which denotes future time; as, John will come, you shall go, they will learn, the sun will rise to-morrow, he will return next week.

All the other tenses, even in their simplest form, are compounds. OBS.

" He found the thing to say, and he made his voice earnest and low to give the words wing and sharpness; it was like the hum of the bow string after the arrow is launched, so tense was the tremor of his tone.

Wells, a still later writer, gives this unsafe rule: "When the past tense is a monosyllable not ending in a single vowel, the second person singular of the solemn style is generally formed by the addition of est; as heardest, fleddest, tookest.

This tense, in its simple form is the preterit; which, in all regular verbs, adds d or ed to the present, but in others is formed variously.

Besides, by most of our grammarians, the present tense of the infinitive mood is declared to be the radical form of the verb; but this doctrine must be plainly untrue, upon the supposition that this tense is a compound.

Generally we had some good music; for Madame Pulszky wasunhappily in her case the past tense is neededa very perfect musician.

The tenses of the indicative mood, are the most definite; and, for this reason, as well as for some others, the explanations of all these modifications of the verb, are made with particular reference to that mood.

Tenses are those modifications of the verb, which distinguish time.

she would have swooned, so tense was every nerve.

This tense, like the imperfect of the potential mood, with which it is frequently connected, is properly an aorist, or indefinite tense; for it may refer to time past, present, or future: as, "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, what further need was there that an other priest should rise?"Heb., vii, 11.

5.English verbs are principally conjugated by means of auxiliaries; the only tenses which can be formed by the simple verb, being the present and the imperfect; as, I love, I loved.

This tense is the root, or radical verb; and is usually preceded by the preposition to, which shows its relation to some other word: thus, To love.

Tenses, the difierent, named and defined, whether the names of, are approp., or whether they should be changed, whether all express time with equal precision, who reckon only three, and who two; who still differently and variously name their tenses, Tenses, past and present, occurring together.