"use of tense" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the way in which a verb is inflected to show the time at which the action took place. You can use this phrase when discussing the different tenses in a sentence or text, or when explaining how the writer uses different tenses to convey a specific meaning. For example: "The author's consistent use of past tense in the story created a nostalgic tone."
Use of tense became less complicated and less subtle in meaning.
Syntactically conditioned differences related to structural complexity, problematic use of tense and subject-verb agreement or bundling/DP effects, are not recorded.
In the first stanza the succession of present participles becomes monotonous - there needs to be another way to render the speaker's anxious persistence, while making effective use of tense.
"Noting the clever incorrect use of tense that you have written in your comment regarding David Warner," says Matthew Cooke, undoubtedly awarding me more credit than I deserve, "reminds me of a joke which is entirely unrelated to cricket and especially this series: 'The Future, the Past, and the Present all walked into a bar - it was very tense".
The spelling is good, except for "enow", but the use of tenses is restricted to the present simple and shall.
It is not just long but wordy and repetitive, and oddly awkward in the use of tenses.
Mr. Saramago, whose sense of literary freedom is evident in his unconventional punctuation and conflicting use of tenses, sought a different form of freedom in "The Stone Raft," where he imagines the confusion unleashed when the Iberian peninsula suddenly breaks free from the rest of Europe, drifts toward the New World and threatens to collide with the Azores.
Markers also found candidates used commas and capital letters randomly and were uncertain about the correct use of tenses, apostrophes and paragraphs.
He realizes that his use of tenses in his explanations of these notions renders them ultimately circular, but asks that he not be criticized "for making these differences known in terms, as it were, of themselves, for it does not come to mind, or does not do so easily, how they could otherwise be made known" (Dales 1963a, 98).
It was enthralling to see the meaning emerge, to observe the subtle uses of tense and aspect and mood, and feel the force of the small, indefinable, not strictly necessary words that linguists dryly call "function words" and which are known in Greek grammar as particles.
Anchor tense: strict use of past tense, with exception of quotations As long as there is no present or future tense used (except if a character is being quoted), then the child gets a point for using the anchor past tense.
