Children first experience the verb as an “action word.” These presentations introduce another superpower of the verb: its ability to tell time! Actions may disappear at some point in time; some are not constant, and actions have differing lengths of time. Our goal is to bring this awareness of time to the conscious level, by further analyzing children’s speech and writing. Children are probably already using these tenses more or less correctly in speech. We are crystallizing that existing knowledge with a name and a conceptual understanding, so that children can more consciously communicate with intention, expression, and clarity, and so that they can better understand the words of others.