| Using this ending does not require and connecting vowel to be inserted in the future tense. |
| Affirmations should be affirmed in the present tense, not the future tense. |
| Thus, many African languages simply do not express a future tense or a future history. |
| Then it belatedly dawned on me that the report was in the future tense and was written to explain what was due to happen that evening. |
| For Africans, she adds, the present is strong, the past is rich, and there is no future tense beyond a month or so. |
| Both were described in the future tense since both took place in the context of the Eucharist, of which the novice had no direct experience. |
