Re: Perfect mood
On Nov 29, 8:57 am, Harlan Messinger
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Yeah, in English we can also say "School starts next week", and we can
relate a story that happened earlier as though it were happening
currently ("He gets out of his car and he stands next to my door. So I
open the door and get out ....") Does that mean in English the present
tense isn't the present tense?- Hide quoted text -
You may have to rename it with a descriptive name if you had to
translate it into a language that doesn't have the equivalent (and
your FL correspondent was insisting on precision in naming).
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