Sentence examples for understanding of tense from inspiring English sources

Scott was aware of Prior's work, and was also influenced in his understanding of tense by Reichenbach, who had been a powerful figure at UCLA until his death in 1953.

Fewer errors of tense, intent and agreement, plus a better understanding and deployment of idiom make for a much more readable translation.

A sequence-of-tenses problem.

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

However, with sentiments like that floating around the Middle East, I have a better understanding of why they are so damn tense there.

Weeks of tense wrangling followed.

After two days of tense politicking, Vice Pres.

In the lobby, a thrum of tense murmuring began.

I had braced myself for crowds of tense shoppers.

Plenty of tense moments were caught on film.

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