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Tenses, tenses and more tenses…. | English materials for KSG students - […] Mixed future exercise […] Then I remembered that one of the maxims of Marxism is “From each according to his ability and to each according to his need” This is the surest way to building a just and egalitarian society. The apostolic fathers tried it (communalism/communism) but failed due to human greed (capitalism) and unfaithfulness as epitomised by the couple in this bible story. “So you can see that greed is also one of the major problems why corruption waxes stronger and stronger in your midst. And once a problem persists for far too long, it develops strong tap roots, wide branches to accommodate all manner of patrons and all of this work together to entrench themselves. Two consequences arise from these” Then I wondered what these could be. As if He read the thoughts of my heart, He answered: “They become very difficult to uproot. They flourish and taunt the upright. They produce fruits after their own kind and reduce the space available for contrary opinion to sprout, not to talk of flourishing” And then I remembered the Marxist maxim that “the dominant idea in any society is the idea of the ruling class”. Their culture is the dominant culture; their law, the dominant law and their decadence rubs off on everyone. Of course, not everything in the future is certain! We need a way of talking about future events that are only possible. For this, we have the modal verbs may, might, and could: The way we describe the tenses can very much depend on our purpose and particular schools of thinking – some grammars define it as twelve tenses (as I present in my own book) to show the 3 times, past, present and future, and their four forms, but others would describe this as two or three tenses (past and present as the only ‘morphological’ tense, and future as a tense using auxiliaries), with four ‘aspects’ each. On the other extreme, there are ways to describe other particular functions as tenses, too, so it really depends on how much detail we wish to go into. When it comes to British vs US, there are differences, yes – most generally it comes between how we use simple vs continuous or how we use the perfect tenses – though these will also vary within the countries so I wouldn’t venture to give a definitive list. The differences aren’t especially dramatic, though, and shouldn’t have a huge impact on meaning; it will often occur when we might consider the tense use fairly flexible anyway. Reply

Last week we looked at the most basic tenses and structures that are used for talking about the future. This week, we’re considering some more future tenses and structures and thinking about exactly how they are used.Dictionary definition of “this”–“used to identify a specific person or thing close at hand or being indicated or experienced.” DBH: More grammar quizzes | ELOSaniturri - […] mix tenses: Exercise 1, Exercise 2, Exercise 3, Exercise 4, Exercise […]

flex_justify=center][calendar2 dates="20231122T153000Z/20231122T163000Z" details="R2 Admission Tips" location="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyvtwRtim7o"]R2 Admission Tips[/calendar2][/flex_justify] My point is that with understanding of what next actually means, it is not ambiguous. As you pointed out, the definition is that the next one is the one that follows THIS one. As long as we use THIS for this coming and this past, the days referred to as LAST and NEXT are perfectly clear. Your dictionary apparently used the word PRESENT, but on Thursday, Sunday coming doesn’t really work as PRESENT. If you say, I would like to go shopping on present Sunday, people would probably figure out that you mean this coming Sunday, but it makes much more sense to say this coming Sunday (this Sunday, for short), as on Thursday, it’s not presently any day but Thursday, which we would simply refer to as TODAY. Like I said, we always use tense in these situations, and if we also use THIS, we are always clear about the exact day. Then when we add in LAST & NEXT (to THIS), we can also be perfectly clear that last is just previous to this past, and next is just after this coming. No need to refer to the ambiguous WEEK. Weeks are ambiguous, though. Personally, I feel that a calendar week runs from Monday to Sunday. At least in American culture, we all refer to the 2 day weekEND. I think our traditional calendar here shows Sunday as the first day of the week because of a biblical reference. But even if we all agree that the next week starts after a weekend, there’s still the problem of calendar week vs. current 7 day period beginning with today. When one says next week, they could either be referring to this coming Monday through Sunday period, because they would refer to the current Monday through Sunday period as this week. Or, they could be referring to 7-13 days from now. It all depends on what a person is currently meaning by the word week. Week can’t be standardized, but should be understood by context. The issue is that not everyone has the same understanding and the strict meaning of this and next isn’t used always used here.

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I disagree that ‘this Friday’ is nonsense without a context, as the ‘pointer’ or indicator to tell us is based on our understanding of what day today is. The same way we would understand ‘this week’ to be the one the current day belongs to, we can understand that ‘this Friday’ refers to the one that belongs to the current week – within reason (as the article and comments show, this is not necessarily that simple, but it is a starting point). We can use phrases like by or by the time (meaning 'at some point before') and in or in a day's time / in two months' time / in five years' time etc. (meaning 'at the end of this period') to give the time period in which the action will be completed.

I don’t think your cumbersome solution of resorting to a calendar as often as that would be necessary with your system, is pragmatic. Being that the system I’ve described is flawless, and simple when followed, mine is the pragmatic solution. Hopefully you’ll come to understand these things over time and not find them confusing anymore. All descriptive sentences contain tense. If we use past tense, than “this” means this past. Conversely, if we’re speaking in future tense, it becomes this coming. Last Tuesday is referencing past tense, so it would be the Tuesday before this past Tuesday. If it’s Thursday, I can say two days ago was this past Tuesday, or just this Tuesday (combined with past tense), and that last Tuesday was 9 days ago. Dictionary definition of “next”–“(of a time) coming immediately after the time of writing or speaking.” and Defining THIS is where it gets tough for people. If today is Thursday, what defines THIS Monday? But actually, it’s quite easy. When we make statements or ask questions about the goings on of a nearby day, we always use tense. So if I am speaking in the past tense, THIS Monday happens to be 3 days ago. If I’m speaking in future tense, THIS Monday is 4 days from now. Therefore, it’s easy to see that last Monday was 10 days ago, and next Monday is 11 days from now. The key is in knowing that there has to be a THIS, and using it.

This coming Sunday”, though, I’d say brings less confusion – whether said on the Monday or Friday, really that has to mean the upcoming Sunday, only it might be less necessary closer to the day as you might simply say “on Sunday / this Sunday” when less call for having to clearly define it. Reply DBH: FUTURE TENSES | ELOSaniturri - […] mix tenses: Exercise 1, Exercise 2, Exercise 3, Exercise 4, Exercise […] Notice that two of the above examples relate to events that are not only planned, but planned by someone else, as part of an official diary or timetable. This is a typical use of the present simple for future events. This is a common, and logical, way to describe days in the coming weeks. Still, many English speakers do interpret next differently, and us it to simply mean the coming day. If you have any doubt about whether someone means the coming Friday, or the Friday of the following week, you can ask them to clarify:

As you can see in the examples above, we often use the future continuous with time expressions such as:

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We should mention another important use of the present tense for relating the future, and one that students sometimes get wrong. A present tense – often the present simple – is used for talking about future events in phrases that contain words relating to time, such as when, after and until.