Past Time Level vs. Present Time Level

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, Martin Luther University, language: English, abstract: In this paper I am going to write about the present time level (present tense, pre-present tense, future tense, and pre-future tense) - the tenses of involvement and nearness. Therefore, I will have a closer look at the form and usage of the particular tenses. In order to do so I have used the following grammar books: Praktische Englische Grammatik, English G: Grammatik, Englische Grammatik: Regeln und Ubungen fur die Klassen 5 bis 13, A University Course in English Grammar, Tense, and Englische Verbformen: Bedeutung und kommunikative Leistung. At the end I am going to go through three different texts in order to find examples of the use of present tense, pre-present tense, future tense, and pre-future tense. One text is about language and literature: Language and Empowerment by Ronald Carter out of Keywords in Language and Literacy , the second text is a cultural text by David Punter and is called Fictional maps of Britian (Theoretical frames) out of Studying British Cultures An Introduction, and the last text is an historical one out of An Outline of American History by Keith Olson.