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How to pronounce “tense”
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Pronunciation guide for tense
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of tense with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Nora Flanagan: What COVID-19 revealed about US schools -- and 4 ways to rethink education
at once tense and comforting.
- Definition summary
- (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
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How to pronounce tense
Nora Flanagan: What COVID-19 revealed about US schools -- and 4 ways to rethink education
at once tense and comforting.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “tense”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
- (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A grammatical aspect.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood.
- [Verb]
- (grammar, transitive) To apply a tense to.
- [Adjective]
- Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
- Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)
- Pulled taut, without any slack.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
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