"Complete Tense" isn't a standard term in English grammar. However, if you're referring to mastering all the English verb tenses in one hour, it's quite a challenge! Here's a quick rundown:
Simple Present: Used for habits, general truths, and regular actions.
- Example: "She reads every day."
Present Continuous: Used for actions happening now or around now.
- Example: "They are playing football."
Simple Past: Used for actions completed in the past.
- Example: "We finished our homework yesterday."
Past Continuous: Used for actions happening in the past over a period of time.
- Example: "She was cooking dinner when I arrived."
Present Perfect: Used for actions that happened at an unspecified time before now.
- Example: "I have visited Paris."
Present Perfect Continuous: Used for actions that started in the past and continue in the present.
- Example: "She has been studying for two hours."
Past Perfect: Used for actions completed before a certain point in the past.
- Example: "They had finished the project before the deadline."
Past Perfect Continuous: Used for actions that were ongoing before another action in the past.
- Example: "He had been waiting for over an hour when she finally arrived."
Simple Future: Used for actions that will happen in the future.
- Example: "I will call you tomorrow."
Future Continuous: Used for actions that will be happening at a specific time in the future.
- Example: "This time next week, I will be relaxing on the beach."
Future Perfect: Used for actions that will be completed before a specific time in the future.
- Example: "By the time you arrive, I will have finished cooking dinner."
Future Perfect Continuous: Used for actions that will be ongoing before a certain time in the future.
- Example: "By next month, she will have been working here for five years."
Learning all these tenses in just one hour might be overwhelming, but practicing with examples and gradually incorporating them into your speech and writing can help you master them over time!
Tense-Switching In Classical Greek
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Powerball Player Wins $1.33B Jackpot After Hours-long Drawing Delay
Worth the wait!
A Powerball jackpot-winning ticket worth $1.33 billion was sold in Oregon after Saturday night’s drawing was pushed back more than three hours due to “pre-draw procedures.”
The winning numbers were 22, 27, 44, 52, 69 and the red Powerball 9.
The new billionaire has 60 days to claim their winnings. WILL OLIVER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
The lucky winning ticket holder can choose between the $1.33 billion prize paid over 29 years or the one-time lump sum of $621.1 million.
The win was the fourth-largest in the game’s history and only the sixth lucky player from the Beaver State to go home with Powerball’s grand prize, the last time occurring in June 2018, according to the state’s lottery website.
It was not immediately known from where the lucky ticket was purchased, or who the winner was.
Oregon law requires lottery winners’ names to be revealed.
The new billionaire has 60 days to claim their winnings.
The results of the massive win were delayed several hours due to a participating lottery needing “additional time to complete required pre-draw procedures, which have been enacted to protect the security and integrity of the Powerball game.”
The winning numbers were 22, 27, 44, 52, 69 and the red Powerball 9.
Every single ticket sold nationwide must be checked and verified against two different computer systems before the numbers are drawn, Powerball said.
The drawing took place around 2:30 a.M. Sunday instead of the typical 11 p.M.
Saturday night’s delay sparked outrage on social media, with players speculating that the lottery was cheating.
However, it isn’t the first time the lottery’s drawing was delayed before an eventual billion-dollar winner.
In November 2022, Powerball’s drawing was delayed for 10 hours, not occurring until the next morning, according to USA Today.
Eventual winner Edwin Castro’s numbers were called and he became the largest winner in the lottery’s history with his $2.04 billion prize.
It takes the astronomical odds of 1 in 292,201,338 to win the Powerball grand prize.
The Powerball jackpot was last won on Jan. 1 at a Michigan supermarket and went 40 consecutive drawings without a winner.
A lucky lottery player in Michigan correctly matched all six numbers on the first day of the new year, winning the $842 million grand prize.
The winner played at the Food Castle grocery store in Grand Blanc, Mich., and was the first person in the game’s history to win the Powerball jackpot on New Year’s Day.
It was the eighth-largest jackpot in history at the time of the winning.
Police And Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators Clash In Tense Scene At UCLA Encampment
LOS ANGELES -- A police officer who was involved in clearing protesters from a Columbia University administration building earlier this week fired his gun inside the hall, a spokesperson for District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office confirmed Thursday.
No one was injured, according to spokesman Doug Cohen, who said there were other officers but no students in the immediate vicinity. He said Bragg's office is reviewing the incident.
He did not provide additional details on the incident, which was first reported by news outlet The City.
The New York Police Department did not immediately respond to The Associated Press' request for comment
The gunfire came as police officers stormed Hamilton Hall Tuesday evening, where pro-Palestinian protesters had been barricaded inside for more than 20 hours. Video showed officers with zip ties and riot shields streaming through a second-floor window. Police had said protesters inside presented no substantial resistance.
More than 100 protesters were taken into custody during Columbia's crackdown Tuesday. They are part of more than 2,000 people who have been arrested during pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States in recent weeks, according to an Associated Press tally Thursday.
Columbia's demonstrators had seized Hamilton Hall early Tuesday, ramping up their presence on the campus from a tent encampment that had been there since April 17. The encampment was one of the earliest on college campuses.
Despite more than 100 arrests on April 18 and the clearing of the tents, the protesters defied threats of suspension to return to the encampment. Then they escalated their demonstration by occupying Hamilton Hall, an administration building that was similarly seized in 1968 by students protesting racism and the Vietnam War.
Beyond Columbia's New York campus, demonstrations and arrests have occurred in almost every corner of the nation. In the last 24 hours, they've drawn the most attention at the University of California, Los Angeles, where chaotic scenes played out early Thursday when officers in riot gear surged against a crowd of demonstrators.
Hundreds of protesters at UCLA defied orders to leave, some forming human chains as police fired flash-bangs to break up the crowds.
At least 200 people were arrested, said Sgt. Alejandro Rubio of the California Highway Patrol, citing data from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Another 300 people voluntarily left throughout the hourslong standoff, some filing out of the encampment with their hands over their heads in a show of peaceful surrender, according to the university. Others ran away as baton-wielding officers pushed into the hordes that numbered more than 1,000 people.
Later Thursday morning, workers removed barricades and dismantled the protesters' fortified encampment. Bulldozers scooped up bags of trash and tents. Royce Hall was covered in graffiti.
Tent encampments of protesters calling on universities to stop doing business with Israel or companies they say support the war in Gaza have spread across campuses nationwide in a student movement unlike any other this century.
The demonstrations began at Columbia University on April 17, with students calling for an end to the Israel-Hamas war, which has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to the Health Ministry there. Israel launched its offensive in Gaza after Hamas militants killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took roughly 250 hostages in an attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7.
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said in statement Thursday that the encampment had become "a focal point for serious violence as well as a huge disruption." He said days of clashes between demonstrators and counterdemonstrators endangered people on campus, students were unable to get to class, buildings had to be closed and classes were canceled.
"The past week has been among the most painful periods our UCLA community has ever experienced," he said. "It has fractured our sense of togetherness and frayed our bonds of trust, and will surely leave a scar on the campus."
Police in riot gear poured into the UCLA campus by the hundreds early Thursday. Wearing face shields and protective vests, they held their batons out to separate themselves from demonstrators, who wore helmets and gas masks and chanted: "You want peace. We want justice."
For hours, officers warned over loudspeakers that there would be arrests if the crowd did not disperse. Protesters and police shoved and scuffled. Police helicopters hovered and the sound of flash-bangs pierced the air. Police pulled off protesters' helmets and goggles as they made arrests.
Police methodically tore apart the encampment's barricade of plywood, pallets, metal fences and dumpsters, then pulled down canopies and tents.
The law enforcement presence and continued warnings contrasted with the scene Tuesday night, when counterdemonstrators attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment. Campus administrators and police did not intervene or call for backup for hours. No one was arrested, but at least 15 protesters were injured.
The delayed response drew criticism from political leaders, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and officials pledged an independent review.
Ariel Dardashti, a graduating UCLA senior studying global studies and sociology, said no student should feel unsafe on campus.
"It should not get to the point where students are being arrested," Dardashti said on campus Thursday.
Dardashti said he can relate to the trauma suffered by Palestinians.
"When my dad was fleeing Iran, he prayed that his children wouldn't have to face antisemitism," Dardashti said. "We're afraid of having to flee again in the same way our parents did."
Iranian state television carried live images of the police action at UCLA, as did Qatar's pan-Arab Al Jazeera satellite network. Live images of Los Angeles also played across Israeli television networks.
Israel has branded the protests antisemitic, while Israel's critics say it uses those allegations to silence opposition. Although some protesters have been caught on camera making antisemitic remarks or violent threats, protest organizers -- some of whom are Jewish -- call it a peaceful movement to defend Palestinian rights and protest the war.
President Joe Biden on Thursday defended the students' right to peaceful protest but decried the disorder of recent days.
California Republican leaders blasted university administrations for failing to protect Jewish students and allowing protests to escalate into "lawlessness and violence." They called for the firing of leaders at UCLA and California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, and pushed for a proposal that would cut pay for university administrators.
"We've got a whole lot of people in these universities drawing six-figure salaries and they stood by and did nothing," Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher told reporters.
Meanwhile, protest encampments at schools across the U.S. Were cleared by police -- resulting in more arrests -- or closed up voluntarily.
A college professor from Illinois said he suffered multiple broken ribs and a broken hand during a pro-Palestine protest on Saturday at Washington University in St. Louis.
Bystander video shows the arrest of Steve Tamari, a history professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He seems to be moving in to take video or photos of protesters being detained when multiple officers roughly take him down.
In a post on the social platform X, Sandra Tamari said her husband needed surgery on his hand and has nine broken ribs.
Tamari said in a statement Thursday that it was "a small price to pay for Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza." Campus police referred questions to the university's communications department, which did not respond to a request for comment.
Elsewhere, University of Minnesota officials reached an agreement with protesters not to disrupt commencements. Similar agreements have been made at Northwestern University in suburban Chicago, Rutgers University in New Jersey and Brown University in Rhode Island.
Meanwhile, a professors group at Columbia University condemned school leadership on Thursday for asking police to remove protesters in what the group called a "horrific police attack on our students." Officers burst into a building Tuesday, breaking up a demonstration that had paralyzed the school and taking more than 100 people into custody.
Watson reported from San Diego and Keller reported from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Associated Press journalists around the country contributed to this report, including Ethan Swope, Krysta Fauria, Leslie Ambriz, John Antczak, Christopher L. Keller, Lisa Baumann, Stefanie Dazio, Jae C. Hong, Colleen Long, Karen Matthews, Sarah Brumfield, Carolyn Thompson, Philip Marcelo, Steve Karnowski and Eugene Johnson.