Ancient Chinese was extremely succinct, having no verb tense or other complex grammatical construction.

古代汉语是尤其简洁的，没有动词语态和其他的复杂语法结构。

youdao

Along with advice about the passive voice and keeping your writing in the same verb tense is this often-quoted axiom: omit needless words.

和在写作中对被动语态的建议及要保持时态一致一样被经常引用的还有：删掉多余的单词。

youdao

In this case, it is one thing to have to search and replace one word, and another is to have to change a verb tense, which will require changing the whole text.

在这种情况下，一方面要搜索和替换一个字，另一方面就得改变动词的时态，这就需要改变整个文本。

youdao

Let me quote from that portion of his testimony, which appears on pages 512 and 513, which makes it clear that he wasn't ever claiming that he spotted that verb tense at the time in the Jones deposition, and his silence or his answer was based on spotting the verb tense then.

CNN

Dots over a single letter can change the tense or person of a verb, notes Keith Small, an American participant in the SOAS event.

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