In English, the use of tenses lets you know if something has already happened, is happening right now, or is going to happen in the future. Tenses can also indicate if something is/was an ongoing event or something that happened momentarily.

Could you explain the use of tenses in English grammar?

The use of tenses in the English language lets you know that an action(verb) has taken place right now, sometime in the past or sometime in the future.

Tense is you to speak about when a particular event will take past,which had happened already. Present its happening now as we speak. Future is still going to happen.

Tenses identify an event location in time either past, present and future 

Tenses are used to indicate the time of an action or event, whether it is in the past , present, future or past participle 

Tenses are used to describe events which happened either in the past, present or the  future.

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