I. Comment on the tenses and the starting point:
1. Back in 15 minutes (a notice on the office door).
2. You are now leaving the State of Alabama (the signpost on the highway).
3. When the sun is in the tropic of Cancer the longest day in the Northern hemisphere occurs.
4. He died this year.
5. Do it now.
6. Yesterday he comes to see me and...
7. Today was his birthday.
II. Study these sentences and say which of the alternatives given is correct or more likely and explain its meaning.
1. The Taylors are going to/ will cruise around the Mediterranean to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary. 2. If you're sitting comfortably, then I'm going to/ I'll begin the story. 3. Don't forget to unplug the television before you will go/ go to bed. 4. The Scientists are predicting that the disease will affect/ is going to affect over half a million people over the next ten years.
5. You can borrow the car provided that you will bring/ bring it back before 9 o'clock. 6. Tomorrow the BBС television is devoting/ is going to devote almost the entire day to the programmes first broadcasted in the 1950s.
7. Excuse me. I think I'm going to/ I will sneeze.
8. Kate really likes children, I'm sure she'l / she's going to be happy to baby-sit for us. 9. I’ll bring the post to you in your office when it arrives/ will arrive.
10. The fog is clearing /will clear by mid-morning in most western parts of the country.
1. "I'll come when you have no one else." (Eliot).
2. "Promise you won't do anything, Jean, till everything else has failed." (Galsworthy).
3. "Can we go now, Uncle Hilary?" — "It would be as well, Dinny, before you've quite vamped the foreman." (Galsworthy).
4. "I shall leave it to the boatswain to do that when you're in the navy," said Clara. (Meredith).
5. I'll walk along the beach while you are bathing.
6. "Show him into the study, Emily," he said. "I'll come as soon as I've finished my tea." (Maugham).
7. "I'll see you before I go, Pyle." (Greene).
8."...I shall be glad to think I have your good will when all's been said and done." (Galsworthy)
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REPORTS
1.The problem of the moment of speech in modern Linguistics. (Comrie B. Tense. - Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. press, 1985.)
2. Deixis representation in the category of tense. (Klein W. Tenses as deictic categories// Essays on Deixis/ G. Rauh (ed.). - Tübingen: Narr, 1983. - P. 229-245.)
3. The correlation between lexical and grammatical means of time rendering. (Huddleston R.D. Some observations on tense and deixis in English// Language. Journal of the linguistic Society of America/ W.Bright. – Baltimore: Waverly Press Inc., 1969. - Vol. 45. - № 4. - P. 777-807.).
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