Hello Sophie,
All for one and one for all
If we say that "He lives in Hong Kong" is some kind of action such as habit,
eternity, repeated action, endless action, you-name-it. We may use any other
tense to describe the action:
Ex: He has lived in Hong Kong for 18 years. He is still living there. He
said that he will live there for some more years and then go back to
Australia.
All the tenses here are in fact describing the same action. Different tenses
describe different part, that is, time of the action. All tenses are for the
same action, and so the same action is for all the tenses.
This is therefore very different to the conventional view that we use Simple
Present to describe habit, and Present Perfect to describe result. Actually,
every tense can denote habit, or result.
What do you say to this new idea?
Shun
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----- Original Message -----
From: Sophie Johnson
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Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: `Clause' in TG
My many thanks for Jeff's encouragement. Typically, I shall
take unfair advantage of it, together with a walloping load of cheek,
like this: Please will anyone who has nothing better to do visit the
page `Introduction' on my site: http://www.englishgrammartutor.com/ .
I ply an earnest argument for dropping the notion `clause' from TG's
terminology. No-one so far has so much as cocked a snook at it.
I am deadly serious but beginning to fear I might have misfired.
Sophie
----- Original Message -----
From: Glauner, Jeff
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Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 2:23 AM
Subject: Re: `Clause' in TG
Sophie,
Don't be too good. You won't fit in. Throw your bait in the water. See if
anyone bites.
Jeff Glauner
Associate Professor of English
Park University, Box 1303
8700 River Park Drive
Parkville MO 64152
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sophie Johnson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 11:23 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: `Clause' in TG
Hello! I have just been admitted to your list and
I am quite sure I sound like someone who walks into
a room and bellows. Please forgive me, but I am anxious
to find out what you are all talking about, and more anxious still
to off-load my thoughts on the notion `clause' in Trad Gram's system.
But promise: I shall be good hereafter.
Sophie Johnson
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