tense vs grammatical category

grammatical category vs tense

tense and grammatical category both are nouns.

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

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

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

As nouns, grammatical category is a hypernym of tense; that is, grammatical category is a word with a broader meaning than tense:

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

Other hypernyms of tense include syntactic category.

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

tense (adjective)	grammatical category (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

tense (verb)	grammatical category (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 tense and grammatical category

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