absolute tenseの例文

• Most simple sentences in tensed languages exhibit absolute tense.
• It is common to regard English perfect forms as combinations of perfect aspect with absolute tense.
• In some cases, the operation of sequence of tenses in indirect speech serves to preserve absolute tense.
• An example of a normally absolute tense being used relatively, in English, is provided by indirect speech placed in the future.
• Hodiernal tenses refer to events of today ( in an absolute tense system ) or of the day under consideration ( in a relative tense system ).
• Hesternal tense refers to an event which occurred yesterday ( in an absolute tense system ) or on the preceding day ( in a relative tense system ).
• Crastinal tense refers to an event which will occur tomorrow ( in an absolute tense system ) or the following day ( in a relative tense system ).
• The same is found in some languages even in past indirect speech ( where English tends to preserve absolute tense or use absolute-relative tense, as described in the previous and following sections ).
• The reference point could be the time of utterance, in which case the verb expresses absolute tense, or it could be a past, present, or future time of reference previously established in the sentence, in which case the verb expresses relative tense.
• So, for example, in English we say that " he decided that he would go yesterday "-' will go'has to be in the past ('would go') because his departure is in the past . ( In contrast, we'd say " he decided that he will go tomorrow . " This is called'absolute tense'. ) If English had relative tense, we'd say " he decided that he will go yesterday ", because at the time he made his decision, his departure was still in the future.