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| Jun 8, 2021 at 14:48 | comment | added | Henry | Related: english.stackexchange.com/questions/19471/… | |
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| May 21, 2014 at 12:35 | history | edited | Robusto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 11, 2013 at 22:11 | answer | added | Talia Ford | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 9:11 | comment | added | John M. Landsberg | @JohnLawler What is it someone's been lying about? And what mess? Really hoping for some elucidation. | |
| Apr 14, 2013 at 10:47 | history | edited | RegDwigнt |
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| Apr 12, 2013 at 17:59 | comment | added | John Lawler | That's not our problem. If they come looking for eternal salvation, would you have us administer sacraments? Lying to students is the reason why we're in this mess to start with; there's no excuse for continuing the practice. | |
| Feb 8, 2013 at 14:24 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Feb 3, 2012 at 14:49 | answer | added | Pitarou | timeline score: 16 | |
| Apr 25, 2011 at 18:31 | comment | added | psmears | @Jonathan: (And whatever we call them - tenses, modals, auxiliaries, periphrastic constructions - many people come to this site looking for advice on how to use them :) | |
| Apr 25, 2011 at 18:30 | comment | added | psmears | @Jonathan: I understand what you are saying, but that is highly dependent on how you define the word "tense". Taking the meaning commonly ascribed to it by the majority of native speakers, it isn't true to say there are only two tenses (though I realise the word has a narrower meaning in linguistics); similarly with "periphrastic" - in the technical sense what you say is true, but not so with the common meaning, since "I will go" is the shortest (standard) way of expressing that meaning :) | |
| Apr 24, 2011 at 23:21 | comment | added | user3217 | Tenses are confusing. Despite what you've heard, English only has two tenses: past and non-past. We have a wealth of periphrastic constructions which allow us to express aspect at all, and more specific tense. | |
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| Apr 20, 2011 at 16:13 | answer | added | Jon Purdy | timeline score: 80 | |
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| Apr 20, 2011 at 3:09 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/60540562993983488 | ||
| Apr 20, 2011 at 2:48 | answer | added | sibbaldiopsis | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 20, 2011 at 2:38 | answer | added | Robusto | timeline score: 234 | |
| Apr 20, 2011 at 2:37 | history | asked | Robusto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |