Tense has to be explicated in

This makes it a deictic feature

Preliminaries relation to the time of
of language
utterance

Historic present: way of

describing a past event vividly
but using a present tense
form
Present

Example: That dog is happy

Example: We ate at 7 o'clock

Present, past and future Past
this morning

Tense
Prediction is the characteristic
function of the modal
auxiliary verb will
Future

Structure going to + verb

Adverbs for present now, at present, nowadays

Tense and aspect

Adverbs for past then, last year, yesterday

Tense and adverbs

Adverbs for future then, next year, tomorrow

Adverbs for the three tenses today, this week, this year

All twelve of the simple

Habituality and simple aspect Habituality aspect sentences allow a
habitual interpretation

Progressive aspect It is marked by BE + Verb-ing

Aspect

It is the combination of the

auxiliary HAVE in front of the