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I didn't say it doesn't act as a mood. I'm saying that it acts as a tense, and therefore I can name it as such, as how grammar forefathers named "present perfec
by sedatk 2y ago
I didn't say it doesn't act as a mood. I'm saying that it acts as a tense, and therefore I can name it as such, as how grammar forefathers named "present perfect tense" in English despite all the objections from HN about "perfect" being an aspect. :)
- rvense 2y agoIt really depends on whether you take the term tense to refer to a semantic category or just a set of constructions (surface forms).
- marcellus23 2y agoYou can call anything whatever you want, that doesn't make it correct.