Kudla
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Hello everyone,
I would appreciate your help. I am trying to put together a corpus of sentences in which the present perfect tense occurs and I am not sure whether I have got the functions right:
[FONT="]“I suppose they also handed on to me a hare-brain humour, which it has been my chief delight to indulge.”[FONT="] [/FONT]- [/FONT]could it receive the continuative interpretation? (I am aware of the fact that for this interpretation to be applicable it is often necessary to use some adverbs such as ever since or for X years (months,...) now) - but still it does not seem to me that this state has ended before the moment of speech. What do you think?
[FONT="]“And I declare to you, upon my honour, there is not one of them that has not been grossly and untr[/FONT][FONT="]uthfully overrated[/FONT][FONT="] .”[/FONT][FONT="] (talking about dissipation) - I am not sure (maybe even due to the double negation) if it refers wholly to past or to the present as well (they were overrated and still are)?
[/FONT][FONT="]“From what I see already of the machination in which you [/FONT][FONT="]have been involved[/FONT][FONT="], your case is desperate upon that side.”[/FONT] - does he refer to the past (he found a dead body lying on his pillow) or can the state extend up to the present? (he hasn´t ceased to be the victim of this machinery)
Thanks
I would appreciate your help. I am trying to put together a corpus of sentences in which the present perfect tense occurs and I am not sure whether I have got the functions right:
[FONT="]“I suppose they also handed on to me a hare-brain humour, which it has been my chief delight to indulge.”[FONT="] [/FONT]- [/FONT]could it receive the continuative interpretation? (I am aware of the fact that for this interpretation to be applicable it is often necessary to use some adverbs such as ever since or for X years (months,...) now) - but still it does not seem to me that this state has ended before the moment of speech. What do you think?
[FONT="]“And I declare to you, upon my honour, there is not one of them that has not been grossly and untr[/FONT][FONT="]uthfully overrated[/FONT][FONT="] .”[/FONT][FONT="] (talking about dissipation) - I am not sure (maybe even due to the double negation) if it refers wholly to past or to the present as well (they were overrated and still are)?
[/FONT][FONT="]“From what I see already of the machination in which you [/FONT][FONT="]have been involved[/FONT][FONT="], your case is desperate upon that side.”[/FONT] - does he refer to the past (he found a dead body lying on his pillow) or can the state extend up to the present? (he hasn´t ceased to be the victim of this machinery)
Thanks