Is it of much use?

[Goloviznin Konstantin]

Hello Seelangers,

I think this should be of some interest or even more... Some linguist
(= teacher of English from Saint-Petersburg) has proposed a system of
English tenses. Instead of these he uses three times (=Past, Present,
Future) and three + 1 types of actions: one-time actions (=simple
tenses), processes or long-time actions (=progerssive ), results (=
perfects) + long-time results (= progressive perfects). That is, in
every of Past, Present, Future you can have three + 1 type of actions.

I see it real simpification in understanding what English tenses
really are. From another hand this classifier is universal because of
applicable to any language (for Russian as example).

And from the third hand, I consider a methodic having this classifier
in as a real hit, but others see it a miss.

Looking forward to your posts, Konstantin.

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