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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer)
Subject: English verb tenses
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Not so very long ago, eassong@yorku.ca (Gord Easson) said...

>Let me throw my support in here.  As far as I know, it is generally
>accepted that English has two tenses of which future is NOT one.  Of all
>the possible names for them, I think I would go for Past and Non-past
>(someone mentioned this terminology earlier in the thread).

  Well, then, it must be the =American= language that has six tenses.  At 
least, in grammar school, I was taught that the language we were speaking 
has six tenses.

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