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Morton
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 Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:05 am Post subject: Past tenses |
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| Can anyone explain to me the different forms we use to to express the future? Or any good website that might be able to provide some light? |
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jay-shi
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:14 am Post subject: Re: Past tenses |
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| Morton wrote: |
| Can anyone explain to me the different forms we use to to express the future? Or any good website that might be able to provide some light? |
Your thread title is a little misleading..... Past tenses for a discussion of forms to express the future?
This link should cover all you bases if it's future tenses, and their usage, you want to know about :
http://www.english-the-easy-way.com/Future_Tense/Future_Tenses.htm |
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artyom
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Morton
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for all the responses. I feel this is an example of where Dave's really kicks ass.
And to the person who highlighted the incorrect title, i apologise. I made a mistake.
Once again, many thanks. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Shouldn't the term be verb forms? After all, English only has the past tense and the non-past tense. All the other things indicating future, etc., are modals, not tenses. |
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meangradin
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Different grammarains have different views on this, so for you to say that there ARE only 2 tenses is silly; although Woland does agree with you. Hell, I have a book that argues for "future in the past" as a tense. While another book maintains there are 6 tenses and three "tones: simple, progressive and emphatic" In my mind, a tense describes the time in which the verb takes place, so there must be at least be three tenses, but hey, I am no expert. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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| meangradin wrote: |
| Different grammarains have different views on this, so for you to say that there ARE only 2 tenses is silly; although Woland does agree with you. Hell, I have a book that argues for "future in the past" as a tense. While another book maintains there are 6 tenses and three "tones: simple, progressive and emphatic" In my mind, a tense describes the time in which the verb takes place, so there must be at least be three tenses, but hey, I am no expert. |
Silly? I think I'll go with what my Linguistics profs at university taught. |
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icnelly
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:07 am Post subject: |
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| meangradin wrote: |
| Different grammarains have different views on this, so for you to say that there ARE only 2 tenses is silly; although Woland does agree with you. Hell, I have a book that argues for "future in the past" as a tense. While another book maintains there are 6 tenses and three "tones: simple, progressive and emphatic" In my mind, a tense describes the time in which the verb takes place, so there must be at least be three tenses, but hey, I am no expert. |
I like Centralcali's distinction of past and non-past instead of past and present. Do the infinitive and present tense forms of verbs mark a specific time without modifiers?
I learned this: 2 tenses put together with aspect and mood will yield you verb phrases/forms that are commonly considered tenses: Tense, Mood, Aspect. 2 tenses, 4 moods, 2 aspects.
But as meangradin said, different grammarians have different views, and one of the books I have differs from what I just explained... 
Meangradin, can you explain the 6 tenses and 3 tones model a little more; I'm interested. |
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