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Originally Posted by shun  My reply: If we should be able to "use the present to talk about past, present or future time", are you sure we cannot use the past or the future to talk about the present? If we really can, what a mess in time expression. |
You're changing the argument and ignoring what I said. I quite clearly stated that I was questioning your view of
tense, not the
adverbs, and we can use the tenses in the way I have described.
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Originally Posted by shun Actually, we don't use the present second to talk about the past second.
Also, we don't use Today to talk about Yesterday. |
We can use 'now' in the past- in narratives, it is common enough to see things like 'now he was really scared', so we can use a present adverb to talk about the past.
