grammatical category vs tense

tense vs grammatical category

grammatical category and tense both are nouns.

grammatical category is not an adjective while tense is an adjective.

grammatical category is not a verb while tense is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
grammatical category	Yes	No	No	No
tense	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

As nouns, tense is a hyponym of grammatical category; that is, tense is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than grammatical category:

grammatical category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
tense: a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

Other hyponyms of grammatical category include case, grammatical case, form class, part of speech, word class, number, person, gender, grammatical gender, participant role, semantic role, inanimacy.

grammatical category (noun)	tense (noun)
(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties	a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

grammatical category (adjective)	tense (adjective)
	taut or rigid; stretched tight
	pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
	in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

grammatical category (verb)	tense (verb)
	cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious
	become tense, nervous, or uneasy
	increase the tension on
	become stretched or tense or taut

Difference between grammatical category and tense

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