The Riddle Of English Tense Poem by Rajendra Prasad Meena Jaipur India

Tick-tock, tick-tock, the clocks declare, Three times move through the changing air. Past has passed, and present is here, Future approaches, yet forms are unclear.

I write today, my words take flight; I wrote yesterday, now out of sight. I will write tomorrow—wait and see: The verb stays write; where is tense three?

The past says wrote, the present says write, But will write brings the future to light. If tense means the form a verb displays, Does will make a third tense in grammatical ways?

Will is a modal, with a role of its own; It expresses more meanings than the future alone. Can, may, must, and might join the show, With meanings beyond the time we know.

Old English echoes; Modern English replies, Two scholarly views, two different eyes. Traditional grammar counts three in its scheme; Modern linguists question what those forms mean.

Past, present, future—three ways to view time; Yet tense and time need not perfectly rhyme. One tells when an action takes place; The other marks forms that grammar can trace.

So listen, dear learners, and question with care: Are there two tenses, or three we declare? When time has three faces, but verb forms are two, What makes a future tense? That is our issue!