Editing Grammatical tense (section)

==== Wuvulu-Aua ====
[[Wuvulu-Aua language|Wuvulu-Aua]] does not have an explicit tense, but rather tense is conveyed by mood, aspect markers, and time phrases. Wuvulu speakers use a realis mood to convey past tense as speakers can be certain about events that have occurred.<ref name="Hafford">{{cite book|last1=Hafford|first1=James A|title=Wuvulu Grammar and Vocabulary|date=2014|url=http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/Dissertations/JamesHaffordDraft.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211081022/http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/Dissertations/JamesHaffordDraft.pdf |archive-date=2017-02-11 |url-status=live|access-date=6 March 2017}}</ref> {{rp|89}} In some cases, realis mood is used to convey present tense — often to indicate a state of being. Wuvulu speakers use an irrealis mood to convey future tense.<ref name="Hafford"/>{{rp|90}}
Tense in Wuvulu-Aua may also be implied by using time adverbials and aspectual markings. Wuvulu contains three verbal markers to indicate sequence of events. The preverbal adverbial ''loʔo'' 'first' indicates the verb occurs before any other. The postverbal morpheme ''liai'' and ''linia'' are the respective intransitive and transitive suffixes indicating a repeated action. The postverbal morpheme ''li'' and ''liria'' are the respective intransitive and transitive suffixes indicating a completed action.<ref name="Hafford"/>{{rp|91}}