Sentence examples for tense I from inspiring English sources

Each question expressed one idea and no question was phrased in a negative tense (i.e., not or neither).

I was so tense I couldn't eat".

I was a bit tense, I have to admit.

I realise as I sit there how tense I am.

Then he said, his voice tense, "I don't like how this looks".

This is followed by mastery of the irregular past tense ("I made," "I had"), possessives (my, mine, his), articles (a, an, the), and the regular past tense ("I walked," "he stopped").

The Akkadian preterite i-prus '(he) divided' and present tense i-parras '(he) is dividing' provide another example, this time formed on the root √prs.

"I'm tense, and I'm very tense with him," she told me.

I felt tense, but I knew just what to do.

"In the last fight, I was nervous, tense - I would rather have boxed in the first round and not got the bye," he said.

Grammar has inarguable rules (the past tense of "I am" is "I was").