Sentence examples for absolute tense from inspiring English sources

In this sense the perfect is a relative tense and the past an absolute tense in English.

The notions speech time, event time, and reference time were introduced by Reichenbach (1947) in order to distinguish simple past and present perfect or, more generally, absolute and relative tense.

Video shows him somersaulting backwards into the air, before landing perfectly on his feet and tensing his biceps in absolute delight.

He said he referred to his children in the present tense because he knew with absolute certainty they were still with them today and that their "unblemished, innocent, perfect souls" were their whole world.

THE grammar of Ukrainian politics is irregular, with past, present and future tenses overlapping, and conditional and absolute moods switching with bewildering rapidity.

After a series of requests, a tense meeting with the guardians and promises to maintain absolute secrecy, your correspondent was permitted to see Cyprepedium calceolus in 2004.

MR. DEL TORO, director of "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Hellboy": Stanley Kubrick's absolute control over the medium turns his rock-solid framing and tense timing into real weapons pointed directly at the unsuspecting audience of "The Shining".

According to Comrie (1985), who refined Reichenbach's system (in Chapter 6 of his book on tense) speech time and event time are sufficient for the analysis of absolute time; i.e., present, (simple) past and future.

Past tense.

Tense legs.

Tense error.