The Thrilling World of Verb Tenses
In the prophets of old, we spoke of the past as the past, the future as the future, and the present as the now. But we, the masters of the 4th wall, know that the past is just yesterday's leftover lasagna, the future is where the party's at, and the present is where the Wi-Fi signal is strong.
But wait, there's more! prophets also spoke of the aspect, a mysterious force that governs the verb's behavior in the sentence.
Aspect: the Perfect storm of grammatical possibilities. It's like Continuous and Perfect are at war with Progressive.
And don't even get us started on Perfect Tense, the most Incredible of them all!