24.3 various tenses 3 We (1) describe / have described / described a system for defining the level of verbosity in a language. The real power of this system (2) lies / has lain / lay not only in the specific uses we (3) describe / have described / described , but also in its user-friendliness. Exploiting this approach, we (4) begin / have begun / began to analyze a wide variety of European languages. We (5) see / have seen no reason why our verbosity index cannot be applied to other languages such as Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, and Korean. This study (6) is currently being / is currently / has currently been carried out at our institute. We (7) plan / are planning / will plan to extend this research to other language families 1. have described 2. lies 3. have described 4. have begun 5. see 6. is currently being 7. plan, are planning
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