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R: Do you know of a current commonly-used grammar book for ESL learners that presents tense that way?
5. Unfortunately, I don't. The writers of these books seem to be be ignoring the thoughts of:
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[/FONT][FONT="]Aitken, Rosemary (1992) Teaching Tenses, Walton-on-Thames, Thomas Nelson[/FONT]
[FONT="]Biber, Douglas; Johansson, Stig; Leech, Geoffrey; Conrad, Susan and Finegan, Edward (1999) Longman [/FONT][FONT="]Grammar of Spoken and Written English,[/FONT][FONT="] Harlow: Longman[/FONT]
[FONT="]Carter, Ronald & McCarthy, Michael (2006) Cambridge Grammar of English, Cambridge: CUP[/FONT]
[FONT="]Chalker, Sylvia (1984) Current English Grammar, London: Macmillan[/FONT]
[FONT="]Chalker, Sylvia and Weiner, Edmund(1993) The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar, 2nd edn, Oxford: OUP[/FONT]
[FONT="]Christophersen, Paul & Sandved Arthur O. (1969) An Advanced English Grammar, Basingstoke: Macmillan[/FONT]
[FONT="]Huddleston, Rodney & Pullum, Geoffrey K (2002) The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, Cambridge: CUP[/FONT]
[FONT="]Lewis, Michael (1985) The English Verb, Hove: LTP[/FONT]
[FONT="]Palmer, Frank R and Greenbaum, Sidney in McArthur, Tom (1992) The Oxford Companion to the English Language, Oxford: OUP.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Quirk, Randolph, Greenbaum, Sidney, Leech, Geoffrey and Svartik, Jan (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, London: Longman[/FONT]
[FONT="]Yule, George (1998) Explaining English Grammar, Oxford: OUP.[/FONT]
But, "people find it extremely difficult to drop the notion of 'future tense' [...] from their mental vocabulary, and to look for other ways of talking about the grammatical realities of the Enlish verb".
[FONT="]Crystal, David (2003.196)The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language (2nd edn) , Cambridge: CUP
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