Tense
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...indicates the verbs voice , mood , person, and number. Tense specifies whether the verb refers to action in the past, present, or future. A tenselike distinction found in many languages (e.g., Russian and Hebrew) is that of aspect, by which...