‘Bought’ is past tense but refers to an imagined situation, not to something that actually happened in the past. Oddly enough, in the English language we also use present tense to describe ...

There is a misconception that all verbs in a paragraph should be in the same tense. The choice of the appropriate verb tense depends on context and meaning.

The word 'tense' comes from 'tempus', the Latin word for time. Some languages like Mandarin Chinese don’t have verb tenses but express time in different ways. When writing, it’s important to ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, has identified the ...

What makes expressing time difficult for aphasia patients? Researchers uncover language-specific struggles with encoding and ...