This chapter begins with a table which shows the complex elements which underlie sentences, relating to mood, tense, person, number and voice. Certain of these concepts are then explained in more detail. The first section discusses the relationship between time and tense, showing a timeline of the tenses of French diagramatically. A chart follows which lists all the tenses, dividing them into their simple and compound forms. The next section explains how mood, tense, person, number and voice are expressed through the medium of the verb, involving the endings of verbs, changes in the radical and the use of auxiliary verbs. The different characteristics of the three groups of verbs are then described. Subsequently the tenses of the indicative mood are outlined, followed by separate sections in which detailed descriptions of the form and function of all the tenses of the indicative in the French system are made: present, imperfect, compound past, simple past, pluperfect, past anterior, future, compound future, conditional and compound conditional. A final chart summarises the sequence of tenses in conditional clauses. The last part of the chapter contains a passage with a wide variety of tenses of the verb in it, which are then analysed. At the end of the chapter there are five exercises for grammar practice.