Putting aside the fact that no one from any of the denier groups was on the program, Cohen's admission is noteworthy because technically "has been funding" -- which, grammatically speaking, is in the present perfect progressive tense -- describes an action that began in the past and continues in the present.
The presumptive mood has 3 tenses- past, present and present progressive (the correspondent to the continuous tense in English); it is used to express a possible action (the usage of the modal "might" in English).
Morphology was assessed through calculation of morphological errors that were coded for each transcript using the same categories as found in the Wugs test: plurality, third-person singular, past tense, comparative/superlative, present progressive, and possessive.
For these cases, you may want to use the present progressive, rather than simple present tense.
These conjugations work for both the present tense and present progressive.
In English, a child first masters the grammatical rules for the present tense (e.g., "I want") and begins to use the present progressive ending ("-ing") and the plural.
Expand your 3 basic tenses into the "___" progressive tense.
The verb system is complex but, by and large, regular: it uses indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods; preterite, imperfect, present, future, conditional, and a variety of perfect and progressive tenses; and passive and reflexive constructions.
Conjugate "ser" in the present perfect tense.
A subset of children were probed on present and past tense preferences for the item stems; 8 preferred the present tense, 8 preferred the past tense, and 9 had no stated preference when referring to the past 7 days.
