English verbs are pretty tame compared to Slavic verbs that can be modified with all kinds of perfective prefixes.
On the other hand, Chinese verbs are even easier. They don't even have a tense!
On the other hand, Chinese verbs are even easier. They don't even have a tense!
However, the verbs themselves don't have tense. So these sentences can be identical: "I will walk home, then I will eat a cake" and "I walked home, then I ate a cake".
The overall timeframe can be given by a larger context: "Once my shift is over, I ..." / "I drank too much yesterday, that's all I remember: ".
It's simply not possible in English because every verb has a grammar tense built into it.