Editing Grammatical tense (section)

=== Ancient Greek ===
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The paradigms for [[Ancient Greek verbs#Tenses|tenses in Ancient Greek]] are similar to the ones in Latin, but with a three-way aspect contrast in the past: the [[Aorist tense|aorist]], the perfect and the imperfect. Both aorist and imperfect verbs can represent a past event: through contrast, the imperfect verb often implies a longer duration (e.g. 'they urged him' vs. 'they persuaded him'). The aorist participle represents the first event of a two-event sequence and the present participle represents an ongoing event at the time of another event.<ref>Daniel Couto-Vale, 'Report and Taxis in Herodotus's Histories: a systemic- functional approach to the description of Ancient Ionic Greek', ''Nuntius Antiquus'', v. 11, n. 1, p. 33–62, 2015</ref> Perfect verbs stood for past actions if the result is still present (e.g. 'I have found it') or for present states resulting from a past event (e.g. 'I remember').