By Simple present, Modal auxiliaries

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

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...