... 5)Perfect tenseand pluperfect tense (El [pret´erito] perfectoyelpluscuamperfecto /antecopret´erito [M])Level 11.1 Perfect tense (El [pret´erito] perfecto)1.1 Perfect tense Haber and the ... more helpful, and certainly more logical, to call the perfect tense thepast indefinite tense for one simple reason, and that is the meaning of indefi-nite. Although the perfect tense refers to ... padre525 Perfect tenseand pluperfect tense despu´es de que after al momento que as soon asen cuanto as soon as luego que as soon as and is formed with the preterit of haber and a past participle:Apenas...
... president and she is his cur- rent wife • He is the current president and she was his wife in 1975 • He was the president in 1975 and she was his wife then (but perhaps he is divorced and no ... for the interpretation of nontensed elements, as we will see below. 3. Temporal Interpretation of Nontensed Elements Not only tensed verbs, but also other nontensed elements in the sentence ... event time ceases to be passed down and may not be reinstated for interpretation. Note, however, that the verb time and the time with respect to which the nontensed elements are interpreted...
... ResultsFigures 1 and 2 show the Precision-Recall curvesof the error detection and correction performance ofeach model. The figures are grouped by error types: tense, aspect, and both tenseand aspect. ... 4.3), and α (0 ≤ α < 1) is the weight of the surface tense/ aspect.We first calculate c(y) of all the labels, and dis-count only the label that is the same as learner’s tense/ aspect, and finally ... RecallUse of surface tense/ aspect forms of target verbs im-proves precision but harms recall. This is becausein most cases the surface tense/ aspect and the cor-rect tense/ aspect form of a...
... recently, don’t you think?6 My grandfather died 30 years ago. I (never/meet) him.4. Fill in the blanks with modals: must - have to - ought to - used to1. You wash your hands before meals.2. It’s ... are weak. I wear glasses.5. Give the correct tenses of the verbs in brackets:1. I’m sorry you’re leaving. I hope you ….…… …………………………… (come) back and (see) ….…… …………………………… us soon 2. I think ... seventeen. In the play, she must appear in a bright red dress and long black stockings. Last year in another play, she had to wear short socks and a bright, orange-colored dress. If anyone asks her...
... their land a rest.The land stays healthy and rich. Modern farmersform rows in curving lines and plant trees tostop the wind. Modern crops are much larger and more dependable.Dry land farming ... thirteenDRY LAND FARMING: AN ART AND A SCIENCEthe past tense PAST TENSE OF BE: I was we were you werehe, she, it was they wereVERB ( + ed)AUXILIARY = did (for questions and negatives)vocabulary:cropdroughtdustsituationWestern ... drought, oftenturned the land to dust. Then winds came along and blewthe good land away. This happened year after year.Farmers didn't understand how to plant and so they madethe situation...
... Mountains formed and the weather changed.10. Dinosaur bones changed to stone.Contrasting the Present Perfect Tenses with the Past Tense Both the present perfect tenses and the past tense can describe ... twelve and thirteen, you learned that the past tense could be used to describe aperiod of time in the past. Another verb tense which is used for this time picture is the pasthabitual tense with ... styles of clothes. Theyput on new clothes and stand in front of cameras. Picturesof models appear in newspapers and in magazines. Peoplesee the pictures and want to buy the clothes. Fashionmodels...
... enable LAX to accommodate71.2 MAP by 2005, and 89.6 MAP by 2015, or roughly 91% of forecasted demand. Theseimprovements would also enable LAX to handle 3.1 Airfreight Cargo Tons in 2005 and 4.2 ... South Bay and North Bay Cities and Communities For the LAX Master Plan EIS/EIR Alternatives, 1996, 2005 and 2015 97Table 49 Distribution Of Incremental and Total Direct Job Impacts of The LAX Master ... Between Passenger and CargoActivity at LAXAnd Regional Economic OutputThe next step in the analysis involved relating the disaggregated history and forecast of passenger and cargo activity...
... tense of the main clause and the tense of the subordinate clause must have the same tense (disregarding progressive and perfect aspects). This seems to be true for all past and present tenses. ... (p.59) Time andTense in English Mary P. Harper and Eugene Charniak Brown University Department of Computer Science Box 1910 Providence, RI 02912 Abstract Tense, temporal adverbs, and temporal ... or present, then the tense of the first verb in the subordinate clause must have like tense. If the tense of the first verb in the main clause is future tense, then the tense of the fhst verb...
... set of representations for tenses and a set of constraints on how they can be combined. These representations provide insights into the interpre- tation of tenses, and the constraints provide ... won interesting interactions among tenses, and 119 of tenses only nine are acceptable when put in adjunct constructions like (1). (The nine acceptable tense pairs are listed in Table 3.) ... offered in Yip (1986) and Hornstein (1990). 5.1 Semantics of Simple Tense Structures Two other works, Yip (1986) and Hornstein (1990), have developed theories of the effect of tense on the acceptability...
... correct tenses, according to the systemic theory the tense determination process is iterative. In other words, the first tense is determined by choosing past for the primary tenseand halting ... treatment of tense are being planned. REFERENCES Allen, J.F. (1984) Towards a general theory of action and time. Artificial Intelligence, 23, 123- 154. Fum, D., Giangrandi, P. and Tasso, C.: Tense ... by examining the explanations about tense usage given in a set of reference grammars and by extracting a set of tense features representing the ideas and concepts which were utilized in...