Wallace_Tense; Present

Question 1

What is the instantaneous present?

Answer 1

Indicates that an action is completed at the moment of speaking (occurs only in the indicative; verbs of saying or thinking)

Question 2

What is the progressive present?

Answer 2

indicates an action in progress (especially in narrative literature; though more narrow than customary or gnomic)

Question 3

What is the iterative present?

Answer 3

indicates action that repeatedly happens (frequently found in the imperative mood)

Question 4

What is the customary (habitual or general) present?

Answer 4

indicates an action that regularly occurs or is ongoing

Question 5

What is the gnomic present?

Answer 5

indicates of general, timeless fact (no time limits; used in proverbial statements, maxims; “the wind blows,” “God loves…,” “everyone who divorces his wife”; πᾶς ὀ + present participle is routine)

Question 6

What is the futuristic present?

Answer 6

used to describe a future event that has the connotation of immediacy and/or certainty (common)(typically words such as ἐρχομαι, -βαινω, πορεύομαι, , etc.)