Sentence examples for evolution of tense from inspiring English sources

(See, however, Cummings (2015) analysis of the evolution of tense in English from an SFL perspective).

A sequence-of-tenses problem.

After the past-tense "said," sequence-of-tense rules require "had been continuing" or "was continuing".

Weeks of tense wrangling followed.

After two days of tense politicking, Vice Pres.

The treatment includes gentle physical touching of tense muscles as well as – the interpersonal interaction.

Use of tense became less complicated and less subtle in meaning.

She uses the example of tense selection in news reporting of war to identify contextual pressures in register that seem to motivate the choice of tense.

Consider the evolution of vinyl.

The evolution of urban patois?

Parody of evolution of scat vocals.