The perfect tense is used to express or describe actions that have happened in the recent past. It has two parts that always need to be used together. This video provides an explanation of the uses of ...

You know how the joke begins: “A guy walks into a bar…” But wait, for you to know the punch line, this has to be past tense. So wouldn’t it be, “A guy walked into a bar…?” It could be. But usually it ...

One’s tense will vary depending on what one is trying to convey within their paper or section of their paper. For example, the tense may change between the methods section and the discussion section.