The verb system is very intricate with the following tenses: present, simple past, past progressive, present perfect and past perfect.
He explains that present past and future are all united into one "now".
There are four tenses: present, recent past, remote past, and future.
One solution - Strauss's, as Mr. Gilliam describes it - was to accept that eternally present past as a mine.
Christ - A term meaning the "anointed one" meaning the messiah and saviour of humanity in the past, present and in time yet to come.
Produce and catalogue georeferenced files of past, present and developing Arctic research sites and observatory platforms in Europe and the observational protocols employed at each.
Every memory we try to reproduce becomes - as Terdiman states - a 'present past'.
-In the next section, we'll look more at campaign reform's past, present and future.
In standard English, Spanish, and Portuguese, by contrast, the present perfect and simple past are both common, and have distinct uses.
You will find that the author was talking about the past, not present.