-in the indicative mood the speaker presents the action as taking place in reality;
-in the imperative mood the speaker urges the listener to perform some action.
-in subjunctive mood the speaker presents the action as imaginary.
"Tense is primarily the grammatical expression of distinctions of time". Every occurrence, considered from the point of view of time, must be either past (I was here yesterday), present (he is here today), or future (he will be here tomorrow).
"Tense is primarily the grammatical expression of distinctions of time". Every occurrence, considered from the point of view of time, must be either past (I was here yesterday), present (he is here today), or future (he will be here tomorrow).
Simple and Compound Tenses: The present, preterite and future are simple tenses. All the perfect tenses are referred by him to compound tense.
The category of order is a system of two-member opposition: prior and non-prior. Compare: I work –I have worked.
The category of order is a system of two-member opposition: prior and non-prior. Compare: I work –I have worked.
So the prior order marker have+ed is opposite to the zero of non-prior. As in English there are three tenses. This grammatical category can be expressed in all of them. Present: I work – I have worked. Past: I worked – I had worked. Future: I shall work –I shall have worked.
This category is distinguished by B. Khaimovich and Rogovskaya. As they put it this category is the system of two member opposition: shall come-should come. will come-would come their meaning is: absolute and relative posteriority. When posteriority is expressed in relation to the moment of speech it is called absolute. If posteriority is with regard to some other moment then it is relative.
