tailieunhanh - The grammar of the english verb phrase part 99

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar of the english verb phrase part 99', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | VII. Adverbial wrten-clauses using an absolute tense form 679 In theory the sentence When I ve seen Bill he s always been in prison is equally ambiguous but in practice it will normally be interpreted in terms of simultaneity. For the anteriority reading we would say When I ve seen Bill he s always just been in prison. 680 13. Adverbial when-clauses and the use of tenses VIII. When-clause and head clause referring to different times A clause obviously uses an absolute tense form if it locates its situation time in a different time-sphere from the head clause. Head clause referring to the past and when-clause referring to the present This kind of mismatch of time-spheres is not normally possible in adverbial when-clauses. However we might note in passing that such a mismatch can occur in when-clauses functioning as restrictive relative clauses forming part of a temporal adverbial. It may be due to the fact that the relative when-clause has generic meaning i. e. expresses a universal truth or to the fact that the when-clause refers to a habitual situation which holds not only at the time of the head clause situation but also at t0 During the latter part of May and early in June the weather was unusually cold and wet and growth was checked at a time when the quality teas of the year are made. LOB I had reached the age when sexual questions pester the imagination . LOB There are also examples in which the relative when-clause refers to a single nonhabitual and nongeneric situation which is located at t0 even though the head clause is in the past tense. The combination of a when-clause in the present tense with a head clause in the past tense is rendered possible by the fact that the when-clause situation covers a time span which contains not only the head clause situation but also t0 Word of Dag Hammarskjold s death . has sent a shockwave around the globe. . He was the symbol of world peace and his tragic end came at a moment when peace hangs precariously. BR The

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