The perfect tense is used to express or describe actions that have happened in the recent past. It has two parts that always need to be used together. This video provides an explanation of the ...

Most novels are written in the past tense. Readers are more familiar with this tense because they are used to being told a story that has already taken place. For most verbs you add an ‘ed’ at ...

For example, the tense may change between the methods section and the discussion section. The abstract is usually in the past tense due to it showing what has already been studied. Example: “This ...