1·In your own writing, be sure to use consistent verb tense.
写作时，确保使用一致的动词时态。
2·Ancient Chinese was extremely succinct, having no verb tense or other complex grammatical construction.
古代汉语是尤其简洁的，没有动词语态和其他的复杂语法结构。
3·By the time you finish studying the verb tense tutorial, you (master) all twelve tenses including their passive forms.
等你修完了动词时态训练这门课，你就掌握了所有的十二种时态。
4·Along with advice about the passive voice and keeping your writing in the same verb tense is this often-quoted axiom: omit needless words.
和在写作中对被动语态的建议及要保持时态一致一样被经常引用的还有：删掉多余的单词。
5·In this case, it is one thing to have to search and replace one word, and another is to have to change a verb tense, which will require changing the whole text.
在这种情况下，一方面要搜索和替换一个字，另一方面就得改变动词的时态，这就需要改变整个文本。
6·'I have eaten' is the present perfect tense of the verb 'to eat', 'I had eaten' is the past perfect and 'I will have eaten' is the future perfect.
I have eaten是动词eat的现在完成时；I had eaten是过去完成时；I will have eaten是将来完成时。
—— 《牛津词典》
7·'I am' is the first person singular of the present tense of the verb 'to be'.
I am是动词to be现在时的第一人称单数。
—— 《牛津词典》
8·A Spanish verb has six present-tense forms, and six each in the preterite, imperfect, future, conditional, subjunctive and two different past subjunctives, for a total of 48 forms.
西班牙语的动词现在时有六种形态，过去时、未完成时、将来时、条件句、虚拟句以及另外两种过去时虚拟式也各自有六种形态，加起来一共是48种。
9·In English, we have to mark the verb for tense; in this case, we say 'sat' rather than 'sit.' In Indonesian you need not (in fact, you can't) change the verb to mark tense.
在英语中，我们需要用动词的不同形式表示不同的时态，所以“坐”用的是“sat”而不是“sit”，而在印度尼西亚语中，你不需要（事实上，你也不可以）通过动词变形来表现时态。
10·Mind the form of the verb there: it is present tense intentionally.
注意一下这里动词的形式：我故意用了一般现在时。