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 Übungen für 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.