Timeline for present simple usage
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| Sep 10, 2022 at 9:03 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| May 12, 2022 at 7:06 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| May 11, 2021 at 12:39 | history | edited | avpaderno |
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| May 6, 2021 at 13:39 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Apr 29, 2021 at 18:45 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | Stories are usually told in the past tense, but it is possible to tell a story in the present tense to give the reader the feeling of actually being there. | |
| Apr 29, 2021 at 17:22 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | It makes no difference to the verb form of lives whether you're making the bald assertion She lives there or "qualifying" it as I think she lives there. The difference arises if you use an auxiliary verb to convey your uncertainty, in which case only the auxiliary verb is "tensed", and the "main" verb is in the infinitive form: She might live there. | |
| Apr 29, 2021 at 17:19 | comment | added | LPH | Welcome on the ELU! Perhaps you think that the usual conventions about writing English do not matter, but they do. I advise you to check your text and use capitals, question marks and other punctuation where needed, as well as s's that you apparently can place correctly at the end of verbs. After that people on the ELU wont mind to correct your errors involving real difficulties. | |
| Apr 29, 2021 at 17:17 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | We usually refer to one of the reasons for using something, rather than one of the purposes for using it. | |
| Apr 29, 2021 at 17:13 | answer | added | ennbee | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 29, 2021 at 17:07 | history | asked | moodi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |