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The use of "will" to suggest something habitual usually adds a sort of conditionality to the meaning, i.e., if the appropriate conditions are present. This gives less the sense of "always" than the corresponding simple present tense. I will scavenge (under the right conditions / if, when,...

Hello Steves5A I'm sorry but I have to say that "The receptionist returns today" sounds odd to me. The intransitive "return" is a momentary dynamic verb. We cannot use this kind of verb in a simple present tense except in the case you want to state a habitual event. (EX) "He returns at...

When he returns to Manhattan 1000 years later it has been destroyed and rebuilt three times 2 What

Pemmican wrote: As far as I know, there are these 13 tenses: a) Past Perfect Progressive ..had been + present participle b) Past Perfect ..had + past participle c) Past Progressive ..was/were + present participle d) Simple Past ..past tense form e) Present Perfect Progressive ..have/has been +...

Hi all Hi TS. As you said, we don't know how to define present and future. But we can strictly define a grammatical category or not, I guess. The former and the latter questions are intertwined, but I think we can discuss them from both sides. -- Hi MrPedantic It's interesting. I'm...

Mr. Pendantic, Re: your imaginings I don't think it's imagination. With the present perfect, but not with the simple present, in the subordinate clause, you can easily use another present perfect in the main clause. Once you've seen one slum, you've seen them all. Once you've...

I'm only one, but I prefer the simple present tense. The past perfect seems unnecessarily wordy. The only difference I detect between "when" and "once" and "as soon as" is the increasing order of immediacy or insistence. Otherwise, all three take present or present perfect with a main clause...

If the serach is confined into AC.UK domain, Once you arrive in :143 pages Once you have arrived in :143 pages So you may be right that Americans prefer simple present tense. paco

Exapmle 1: this usage of simple present tense is similar to its usge for . (Have you ever seen any scenarios which are not written in simple present tense?) That's good. I hadn't thought of scenarios. Thanks. Love the quote.

Hi milky. (Have you given up our discussion on modal auxiliaries?) Tense is used for more than just time I think it's a good point. Quine once said: Our ordinary language shows a tiresome bias in its treatment of time. Relations of date are exalted grammatically (..). This bias is of...