Time line Verb usage

Historical Writing: Establishing a Point of Time on the Verb-Tense Timeline

2 March 2014 For most of us, classroom conjugation of verbs ranked right up there with diagramming sentences as the biggest yawner of grammar classes. The result still haunts us. What we didn’t learn then—or have forgotten since—can make it difficult for others to understand our writing. Here’s a quick tutorial of the type you won’t get from a grammar teacher.