The counter-factual effect in past tense contexts is produced when both reference time and situation time precede speech time.
In past tense contexts, 當 dāng obtains a counterfactual reading.51 According to Sparvoli (2015), a counterfactual reading in the past is the typical actuality entailment for deontic modals and one of the possible readings (besides an epistemic reading) in past contexts.
The reason their efforts met failure in the Senate was the filibuster rule and its absurd antidemocratic consequences, which in a tense political context like our own cripples any but relatively uncontroversial policy proposals.
In this tense political context, women mediators have been tackling familial, social and land-related conflicts at the community level, which can easily be politicized and risk destabilizing communities.
When expressing your own actions, try to make the action match the tense and context of using your name (or user name) at the beginning of the sentence.
Prior, in his address to a conference in Wellington in 1954, seems to have been the first to use the binary relation in an explicitly tense-modal context.
Where are the facts that will help us to balance the George Packer story that figures the murderers as soldiers in a global war -- an occasion for the clarity of a fighting faith -- and others that insist on the need to understand what local conditions made the fantasy of such a war attractive to them -- the tense ambiguity of context?
Since the late 1990s, with works like "House," "Boxing 2000" and "The End of Reality," Mr. Maxwell has systematically drained the surface tension from traditionally tense, highly dramatic contexts (espionage, prize fighting, street violence).
In speech, early L2 learners of English have been observed to supply forms of copula be more frequently than auxiliary be, and both more frequently than affixal regular past –ed and 3rd person singular present tense –s in contexts where morphological marking is required for native speakers.
