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| signifies continuous action in progress, or state in persistence. |
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| describes an action (state) begin in the past bust still in progress at the time of speaking. |
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| Refers to a past event that either is being stressed as a present reality or is emphasizing that the result of a past act is still continuing. |
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| Historical (Dramatic, Pictorial) Present |
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| A writer utilizes this as a literary device to vividly describe a past event like a present occurrence, hoping his readers can picture it unfolding before their eyes as though happening. |
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| Aoristic (Instantaneous)(Present) |
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| Present expresses punctiliar action that occurs and is completed at the time of speaking |
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| Iterative (Distributive)(Present) |
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| The present describes that which occurs repeatedly at successive interval (.......). |
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| Gnomic (Customary, Genreal)(Present) |
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| Present denotes not what is actually happening, but what customarily and universally happens as a general rule. |
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| Tendential (Conative, Voluntative)(Present) |
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| Present denotes action planned or attempted at the time of speaking, but not actually taking place. |
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| The present either reflects deliberation of mind or expresses obligation. |
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| This signals the beginning of linear action. |
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| Regarded as imminent and certain to happen, the present speaks of a future event as in the very process of happening. |
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| The present represents an action or sate that not only occurs at the time of speaking, but exists forever. |
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