Why do most contemporary English grammarians adopt a two-tense system?
Because tense is a verb form. Morphologically, only present tense and past tense have their forms of verbs. A language (such as Chinese) which has not verb forms has no tense.
Why do most contemporary English grammarians adopt a two-tense system?
Because tense is a verb form. Morphologically, only present tense and past tense have their forms of verbs. A language (such as Chinese) which has not verb forms has no tense.
