Re: Looking for a good grammar

Staving Gary Shannon:

>I am stubborn and I run.        Present tense, simple aspect
>I am being stubborn and I am running.   Present continuous
>I will be stobborn and I will run.      Future simple
>I was stubborn and I ran.               Past simple
>I was being stubborn and I was running. Past continuous
>I had been stubborn and I had run.              Past perfect
>I should have been stobborn and I should have run.      Subjunctive
>mood,       present perfect
>I have been stubborn and I have been running.           Present perfect
>I will have been stubborn for ...                       Future perfect
>I would have been stubborn but ...                      Subjunctive
>futufe      perfect
>I will be being stubborn and I will be running. Future continous
>I will have been being stubborn and I will have been
>running for ...         Future perfect continuous
>...
>
>I came up with about 30 of these, and I sure can't
>remember 30 different names for the tenses, and I'm
>sure some of them even have names.
>
>--gary
I've done my best to name them. Not too sure about the subjunctives, though.

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