True or false: what tense marks

Exercise and reference answers

Questions

1. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Tense indicates the time of an action or being.

2. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Tense is carried by the form of the verb.

3. Statement is true

   No

   Statement

   Tense tells you how many people are involved.

4. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Old English had only two tenses.

5. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   The present tense once covered future time too.

Explanation