A set of forms taken by a verb to indicate the time and/or completeness and continuance of the action in relation to the time of the utterance.

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simple present or past in describing an event shown in a series of pictures

I'm correcting my 7th graders' writing assignment in which they're given three pictures of a fat boy who decides to go on a diet and finally becomes thinner. I've been told that using present simple ...
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Tense after 'before'

Could you tell me why the tense of the verb after 'before' here is in past, while "I'm" is present? I never ast for no fill. I never ast to come at all. I'm here before I knew this here was here. ...