| It's no secret that this was the case, but these comments were all made in the past tense. |
| The extract was a very graphic, detailed description of a particularly violent rape, as told in past tense by the victim. |
| You started with the present tense, you then went to the past tense and now you have gone to the pluperfect past tense. |
| The past forms of nominal sentences are verbal sentences because of the verb of existence which expresses the past tense. |
| But instead of referring to him in the past tense here, I've referred to him in the present. |
| We often use the past tense in English to describe an imagined present or future. |
