The Present tense reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004
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Present tense

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The present tense is the tense or form of a verb expressing action, activity, state or being in the present time.

In English, differentiations are made between the following forms of the present tense:

See also: future tense, past tense, grammatical aspect