Talk:Present tense

message: There has been a growing tendency in the last few years to use the present continuous when at one time, the present simple would have been used.  It is particulalry common (and noticeable)with the verbs to love and to like.
An example would be "I am liking your new coat" rather than "I like your new coat"
Does anyone know what has lead to this development?
Is it solely due to the MacDonalds' "I'm loving it" motto?
Informed Owl (talk) 16:38, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Developing preference for the present continuous rather than the present simple in British English 

message: The article makes no mention of the "do" + infinitive construct, which also represents present tense.  While not often used in its simplest form  ("I do like you"), it is the standard way of making negatives ("I do not like you") and questions ("Do you like me?") in modern English.  WHen I was in school it was called the "empathic" form of the present.  As far as I know it is unique to English, but I am no expert.
CharlesTheBold (talk) 04:07, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  do + infinitive 

message: And what of the eternal present tense used in literature?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.141.111.197 (talk) 07:26,
I am not sure what you are referring to here. In English, the simple present if used to indicate general truths, laws of science and nature and the like, as discussed in the article, and I would think that some literature might use this tense in such a way to indicate some state or condition which lasts for eternity. Wschart (talk) 17:20, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eternal Present 

message: saya amat suka dengan laman web ini,, huhuhuẬḄp  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.26.127.140 (talk) 04:18, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  juyuuuyffvdf6y friendsa sdff5gr the and 

message: The current version of the page (Nov 14, 2010) has at least two extremely questionable examples:
"I'll retire when I reach age 65"
"She became an artist before me."
How are those not examples of future and past tense respectively?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.22.26.54 (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are these examples present tense? Really? 

message: The first column (italicised personal pronouns) in the Macedonian section is weird.
It appears to be an italic Latin script which uses Latin characters which look like
the handwritten Macedonian equivalents.  For example, the second-person singular, 
transliterated, is toi.  The Cyrillic t looks similar to the Latin T.  However, we 
see something like moi, which reflects the fact that the handwritten Cyrillic t looks
similar to the (handwritten or typeset) Latin m.  Got it?  (Looking at the text, it looks
as expected.  Apparently, the Italic rendering makes the characters look handwritten.  Is
this correct?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.29.76.37 (talk) 10:05, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Macedonian orthography 

message: The section on English describes and classifies the uses of the present, whereas all the sections on other languages present morphological patterns of conjugation. What is up with that?—PaulTanenbaum (talk) 13:32, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is fundamentally inconsistent! 

message: How is that supposed to be an example of French present indicative tense?! "Traitement" is not a verb, "en cours de traitement"
cannot be an example of any tense. 184.153.91.75 (talk) 03:57, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Le fichier est en cours de traitement 

message: This article sends you Uses of English verb forms for details on English.  That article says to see this one for details.  Neither one details English.  Gigs (talk) 21:48, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Loop 

message: He was Introduced In his teenage years
102.217.178.222 (talk) 15:08, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  He was first introduced in his teenage years