State Use:
It is found with verbs
expressing a temporally stable
state of affairs (They live in
Tauste)
Suitable for use in expressing
ethernal truths and other
staments made for all time
(two and three make five)
Characteristiic of proverbs
(Time flies), geogrraphical
statments ( Rome stands on
the River Tiber)
All usages can follow the state
definition of the state use.
Event Use:
The event present is
particularly suitable for
commentaries in real time
(sports commentaries)
Another use, performative
utterances, normallu with I
and We as subject (I beg your
pardon) They express formal
acts of declaration. The word
hereby can be used to
emphasise the current act of
speaking .
Present Simple
Habitual Use:
Typically occurs with events
verbs, and its relation is
analogous to the relation of a
plural to a singular noun
(Actions speaks louder than
words)
The haboitual present
resembles the state present,
and on other occasions an
adverbial expression of
frequency reinforces the
notion of repetition (I
generally go to bed very late)
Refering to past and future:
It may refer to events or states
realised in future time, known as
futurate event, it attributes the
same degree of certainity we
normally accordt to present
events , but any aspesct of the
future which is regarded as
inmutable ca be similarly
expressed (The train leaves at 8
tomorrow, Next Christmas falls on
Thursday)
It may refer to the past, historic
present, whereby past
happenings are portrayed or
imagined as if happening at the
present time (Narrative)