Editing Grammatical tense (section)

===English===
English has only two [[morphology (linguistics)|morphological]] tenses: the [[present tense|present]] (or [[non-past tense|non-past]]), as in ''he '''goes''''', and the [[past tense|past]] (or [[preterite]]), as in ''he '''went'''''.<ref name="Huddleston">{{cite book |last1=Huddleston |first1=Rodney |last2=Pullum |first2=Geoffrey K. |title=The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language |date=15 April 2002 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-521-43146-0 |url=http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/cambridge-grammar-english-language |access-date=10 February 2015 |page=51}}
*{{lay source |template=cite web |author=Peter W. Culicover |title=The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language |type=Review |url=http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~culicove/Publications/CGEL_Review.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060101215049/http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~culicove/Publications/CGEL_Review.pdf |archive-date=2006-01-01 |url-status=live |website=Ohio State University}}</ref> The non-past usually references the present, but sometimes references the future (as in ''the bus '''leaves''' tomorrow''). In special uses such as the [[historical present]] it can talk about the past as well. These morphological tenses are marked either with a [[suffix]] (''walk(s)'' ~ ''walked'') or with [[ablaut]] (''sing(s)'' ~ ''sang'').

In some contexts, particularly in [[English language teaching]], various tense–aspect combinations are referred to loosely as tenses.<ref name="Penston">{{cite book |last1=Penston |first1=Tony |title=A Concise Grammar for English Language Teachers |date=2005 |publisher=TP Publications |page=17}}</ref> Similarly, the term "future tense" is sometimes loosely applied to cases where modals such as ''will'' are used to talk about future points in time.