This article is a close textual reading of Xiaolu Guo’s <i>A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers</i> (2007). In the novel, protagonist Z confesses she not good at tenses. Her uncertain command temporality transposes from context grammatical tense to her love life, where desire forever be with English partner conflicts his belief that future in present. As language learning...

The paper puts forward a theory of historical modalities that is framed in terms of possible continuations rather than possible worlds or histories. The proposal is tested as a semantical theory for a language with historical modalities, tenses, and indexicals.

The research is conducted to find out what types of errors the students do most in translating English into Indonesian and order improve quality teaching for Private University Students. description data made by writer based on translation. are articles, plural words, pronoun, noun phrases, gerund, participles, tenses, word choices. methodology used this a qualitative using students’ translatio...

A controversial issue in neuro- and psycholinguistics is whether regular past-tense forms of verbs are stored lexically or generated productively by the application of abstract combinatorial schemas, for example affixation rules. The success or failure of models in accounting for this particular issue can be used to draw more general conclusions about cognition and the degree to which abstract,...

The research paper explores the impact of four skills integration approach to teach tenses at undergraduate level in Pakistani setting. study puts use a quasi-experimental method. Ninety students partook this study. Four intact classes were designated draw sample. A language proficiency test was given choose sections which are consistent terms English Language proficiency. Two groups formed gro...