SIMPLE TENSE Flashcards

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habits, general action and truths

It refers to events that are conceptualized as complete wholes. The events are not presented as
allowing for further development.

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simple present

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Refers to actions that are completed

Describes events as wholes, ones not conducive to change or development. It adds a sense of
“remoteness”— a feeling that the event is over and done with

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simple past

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actions that will happen in the future

with “will” or contracted “ll + base form of the verb
Future time cannot be factually knowable, so w ill is said to be used for strong predictions.

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Future simple

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