By 
Anna Ananichuk
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TED-Ed Original

How many verb tenses are there in English?

How many different verb tenses are there in a language like English? At first the answer seems obvious — there's past present and future. But it isn't quite that simple. Anna Ananichuk explains how thanks to something called grammatical aspect each of those time periods actually divides further.

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