text: Continuous Tenses Continuity is shown in Bajan dialect in much the same way as it is in Standard English. In Bajan, the base of the verb is changed by adding "-in", "ing" or "ine" to the end. For many verbs, this simply results in a contracted form of the Standard English. For example, the base "do", from "to do", becomes "doin" in continuous tenses, which is a contracted form of the Standard English "doing".
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  In Bajan dialect, the tense of a verb is expressed through 'tense indicators'. These are special verbs which are conjugated for this purpose, and generally derive from the verbs "to be", "to do" and "to go".
  The present tense is indicated by the words is or does, with is being considered less proper. For example,
  "I does guh church pun a Sunduh/Sundy" → "I go to church on Sundays"
  "He does eat nuff apples" → "He eats a lot of apples"
  The phrase "I is" or "I does", is quite commonly shortened to "Ise". e.g. "Ise guh church pun a Sunduh."
  The past tense unlike other tenses, is not indicated by a tense indicator, and uses only the base of the verb. For example,
  "He walk town" → "He walked to town"
  "Dem eat all de food" → "They ate all of the food".
  As an exception to the rules, the verb "to go" is conjugated to "went". For example,
  "I went to church Sunduh" → "I went to church on Sunday"