Timeline for Confusion about the use of the present simple in a story
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| Jan 17, 2017 at 22:30 | comment | added | Araucaria - Not here any more. | @StoneyB That makes it all the more interesting! | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 22:13 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @Araucaria It's also controversial, so don't take my word for it! | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 22:09 | comment | added | Araucaria - Not here any more. | @StoneyB Ah, thanks :) That sounds very interesting ... | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 17:24 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | Sorry! Biblical Hebrew. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 15:10 | comment | added | Araucaria - Not here any more. | @StoneyB BH? <----- Agreed about other uses of the present in narratives - hence my judicious placement of often in we often use the past tense ;) But my brain isn't able to decode BH right now. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 14:58 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | mmm ... By convention, literary narrative mostly uses 'past' tense (if a past tense is available--but BH, for example, inflects for aspect not tense, and OT narratives are cast mostly in imperfective forms, with occasional perfects to 'foreground' narrative cruxes) ; but oral narrative, and literary narrative which emulates oral style, moves freely between past and present forms. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 13:35 | history | edited | Araucaria - Not here any more. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2017 at 13:34 | vote | accept | Ahmed99 | ||
| Jan 17, 2017 at 13:20 | history | answered | Araucaria - Not here any more. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |