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adjective
, or by adding the word 
most
before an adjective or an 
►
adverb
. 
Syllable
: in phonetics, a unit of sound. Some words are monosyllables, with just one unit of 
sound, for example 
I, egg, boy, this, stand 
; other words are made up of two or more syllables, 
for example
 nation, basket, given, complicated 
. 
Syntax 
: an aspect of grammar, syntax deals with the way in which words are organised and 
ordered. It includes word order and punctuation. 
Tense
: tenses are specific forms of verbs which are used to situate an action in time. 
According to the current convention in modern linguistics, English just has two tenses, the 
present tense and the past tense; but this is just one way of classifying tenses in English, and 
not 
necessarily 
the 
most 
logical 
way. 
For purposes of simplicity and clarity, many books and language teachers use the word tense 
in a much broader sense, to describe each of the different forms of a verb used to denote a 
different time frame – as is accepted practice for languages like French Spanish or Russian. 
It is important to understand that there is no absolute truth. Saying that there are two tenses in 
English is not any more accurate, nor more exact, than saying there are six tenses, or even 
twelve tenses. It depends on the criteria used to define the notion of "tense". 

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English verbs come in different forms and different aspects, so for example in the 
two-tense 
model,
the English present 
tense
is a single tense with four 
forms
, the present simple and the 
present progressive, the present perfect simple and the present perfect progressive. In the 
six-
tense model,
these are six different tenses, each with two aspects; and in the 
twelve-tense 
model
, there are twelve tenses.