Words to Describe tense
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Things tense often describes ("tense ________")
- air
- nerves
- state
- weeks
- strain
- stillness
- minutes
- features
- days
- suffixes
- body
- feeling
- relationship
- posture
- negotiations
- standoff
- sign
- hours
- verbs
- look
- excitement
- muscle
- expectation
- forms
- drama
- muscles
- face
- aspect
- inflection
- smile
- situations
- relationships
- whisper
- climate
- pause
- seconds
- months
- relations
- ascites
- atmosphere
- fingers
- shoulders
- sequence
- vowel
- emotion
- moments
- shifts
- formation
- faces
- meeting
- verb
- voice
- silence
- usage
- moment
- circumstances
- anxiety
- morpheme
- expression
- confrontation
- situation
- scene
- operators
- markers
- attitude
- environment
- suffix
- expectancy
- logic
- period
- system
- feelings
- mood
- morphology
- conversation
- marker
- endings
- form
- distinctions
- anticipation
- sentences
- vowels
- struggle
How tense often is described ("________ tense")
- progressive
- present
- relaxed
- verb
- simple
- aorist
- preterit
- perfective
- grammatical
- pluperfect
- indicative
- imperative
- abdomen
- passive
- historic
- wrong
- more
- less
- plural
- perfect
- anxious
- subjunctive
- periphrastic
- habitual
- irregular
- timeless
- past
- pretty
- imperfect
- singular
- narrative
- conditional
- preterite
- correct
- morphological
- future
- continuous
- stomach
- verbal
- indefinite
- unmarked
