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Old 11-Dec-2003, 17:06
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Originally Posted by Red5
You could also take a look at our poll on this topic: http://www.usingenglish.com/poll/ind...d=26&l_page=96
Cas says there are only two tenses (as does Tdol), so I guess I had better vote that way.

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Hang on there! There are only two inflected tenses has somehow turned into there are only two tenses. I simply don't buy that.

There are differences of opinions about the perfect and progressive tenses. I tend to draw the line bewteen them. The perfect tenses involve time and are correctly called tenses in my opinion. The progrssive forms are about process and conditionals are about structures.

For me, there are 6 tenses.
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