Tensed up over tenses

Looking at tenses and the ways in which they are used.

I AM a follower of Fadzilah Amin’s question-and-answer sessions for Mind Our English. I cannot help but feel for the considerable number of readers who occasionally submit questions about their confusion in the use of tenses. Fadzilah Amin is, of course, fully right to say (MOE, Dec 16, 2010) that “explaining all the English tenses ... would take at least a chapter of a book, if not a whole book.”