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In order to explain tense, I have resurrected the important role of the sentence. Sentences express meanings (like Habit); tenses tell only the time of the meanings. This is the main point of the new approach. Tenses are used tell different parts of time, namely past, present, or future, of a...

THE EMBARRASSMENT OF DEFINITE PAST TIME ADVERBIALS (DPTA) Most grammar books will remind you of the 'Golden Rule': Present Perfect doesn't stay with past time expressions, such as "yesterday, in 1993, last week," etc. However, as they know by heart they are hiding away many past time...

I have long noticed a kind of tense-changing process: telling the time frame of an action will have to change its tense. If on one-sentence basis, the stand-alone meanings of Simple Past, Present Perfect, and Simple Present are no more than the following four simple rules: (a) Simple Present...

Miriam has given you the most detailed explanation for all of your questions. She is remarkably knowledgeable about the oddities of English grammar which is full of exceptions. I assume you have had problems with your teachers in the past. Grammar is there to help not to create problems. Where...

THE Past Family In explaining tenses, most grammar writers have to hide away the family of past time adverbial "in the past xx years", which I call the Past Family, (such as "in the past, in the past year, in the past two months, during the past three decades, over the past four weeks, for the...

Miriam said: I might be wrong, but you seem to confuse the concepts of "time" and "tense". "Time" is a universal concept in the sense that units of time are extra-linguistic, they exist independently of the grammar of any particular language. "Tense", on the other hand, is the language-specific...

HIGHLY SELECTED SELFISH EXAMPLES Give me any newspaper of today and I will find lots of Simple-Present examples such as these: Ex1: Recent polls SHOW Bush's standing with the public has weakened as Americans..... Ex2: Several groups, including the National Abortion Federation and the Center...

I might be wrong, but you seem to confuse the concepts of "time" and "tense". "Time" is a universal concept in the sense that units of time are extra-linguistic, they exist independently of the grammar of any particular language. "Tense", on the other hand, is the language-specific category which...

I regret to tell you that it's not me who's got into trouble here. And I'm afraid I'm not going into too much detail here, TS. The only thing I can say is that I chose the wrong post to respond do. Some of the examples you provide are not really good for the explanations that accompany them, and...

~girding on my armour~ I'm coming to rescue my mother tongue from the evils of translation engines!! ~chuckle~ I've never liked those translation programs, and I see I have good reasons for it! "Hola a todos; mi español es muy pobre, sé lo que nnecesito escribir en mi propio idioma pero no puedo...