Tenses, explored
That's all simple enough, and every language in the world has some way of dealing with those three areas of time. But the English language structures time, through verb tenses, in some slightly more complicated ways. Like this... The idea here is of 'unfinished time' - an action which started in the past but which reaches to the present. In addition, there is the idea of 'just' - an action which may have finished,...