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| Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done? Reports are now written in four tenses: past tense, present tense, future tense, and pretense. Watch for novel uses of CONGRAM (CONtractor GRAMmar), defined by the imperfect past, the insufficient present, and the absolutely perfect future. -- Amrom Katz | |
| Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labor: People are always available for work in the past tense. | |
| I'm not tense, just terribly, terribly alert! | |
| A grammarian's life is always in tense. | |
| Americans are people who insist on living in the present, tense. | |
| "`We've got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them.' The crowd were tense. They were expecting something wonderful from Ford. `Stick it up your nose,' he said. `Which is precisely the sort of thing we need to know,' insisted the girl, `Do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?'" - Ford "debating" what to do with fire with a marketing girl. | |
| People are always available for work in the past tense. | |
