The standard English past tense of the verb swell is swelled, not swole.
William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, remembers the tense rivalries between his staff when he worked for Vice President Dan Quayle, and the aides to the elder President Bush.
That would certainly have given weight to the standard "Ooh, you're very tense" patter.
The standard language also has a tense sibilant ss in contrast with the lax (and somewhat aspirated) s, but many speakers maintain this distinction only at the beginning of a word or ignore it entirely, despite the spelling.
Even Nineteen Eighty-Four, that darkest of literary visions, does not end with a boot stamping on a human face for ever, or with a broken Winston Smith feeling a drunken love for Big Brother, but with an essay about the regime written in the past tense and in standard English.
Now we will look at the future tense in the standard style of speech.
Still, the mere fact that in this corner of Kosovo the communities tolerate one another's existence and co-operate in local politics—is an achievement by the province's dismal standards.Elsewhere, the atmosphere is tense and moody, thanks to a vicious circle of economic depression and uncertainty about the political future.
Items were rewritten or modified to adhere to a set of formatting requirements accepted by the PROMIS development team (e.g., use of past tense, 7 day recall period, standard response options (see Table 1 for response options utilized)).
First we will look at the standard style of speech in the present tense.
I assumed I was simply a bit poorly and tense – which is to say, my standard self.
