Linguistics students often compare the perfect tenses to understand how completed actions are expressed across languages.

Grammar students studied various future tenses during the semester.

Teachers often compare pluperfect tenses across different languages to understand how past events relate to one another.

In his lecture, he compared the aorist tenses of Ancient Greek with their imperfect and perfect counterparts.

In phonetic analysis, the tense vowel often contrasts with a lax counterpart in both duration and articulation.

When learning grammar, students often confuse present tenses with other verb forms, so clear explanations help.

Many students find conditional tenses difficult to master without regular practice.

When writing historical fiction, mastering the sequence of tenses is essential to maintain clarity across shifts in narrative time.

When the lights flickered, she began to tense up and hold her breath.

In Swedish grammar, the supine tense is used together with a form of the auxiliary verb ha ("have") to create the perfect and pluperfect tenses.