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 Re: How would you define the future time?
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Originally Posted by Tdol I disagree with this- tense can be used to express time, but it can do many other things in English- I can use the present to talk about past, present or future time. | My reply: If we should be able to "use the present to talk about past, present or future time", are you sure we cannot use the past or the future to talk about the present? If we really can, what a mess in time expression. Actually, we don't use the present second to talk about the past second. Also, we don't use Today to talk about Yesterday. |