White and livid was his
tense drawn face, but he spoke no word.
"Oh, it is the saddest
tense," sighed Rebecca with a little break in her voice; "nothing but IFS, IFS, IFS!
The situation was deservedly
tense, and Ralph developed it with cautious care, making no abrupt movements, his eyes playing everywhere over dogs and leopards and the men outside with the prods and bars.
The muscles of his body were
tense, and as he moved about she could see them bunch up and writhe and crawl like live things under the white skin.
So
tense was he, so bent upon the work he had to do, that the sweat stung his eyes unwiped, and unheeded rolled down his nose and spattered his saddle pommel.
The
tense thread of human resolution snapped; wills and nerves broke down, and a hundred women suspended their irons or dropped them.
It was
tense and hoarse with an overmastering rage.
Tenses in Vergil's Aeneid: Narrative Style and Structure
In the forty chapters, the book covers the most important elements of Swahili morphosyntax, including a separate chapter for each Swahili verb form: passive, stative, causative, prepositional, and reciprocal (which the book's blurb somewhat inaccurately describes as 'various verb typologies'); basic
tenses (present, past, future); conditional
tenses (nge, ngali and -ki-), as well as the -ka
tense, which is unique to Swahili and Bantu languages; and the subjunctive tense/mood.
As teachers of English working in various settings and systems, we have found the teaching of
tenses as a challenging task.
Morphologically, Pashto1 monotransitives show nominative-accusative case forms in the present and future
tenses, and ergative-absolutive case pattern in the past
tense.
* use simple, perfect, and progressive
tenses appropriately;
