query: Why can't we use the Present Perfect tense for dead people?
positive_passages.docid: 64854
positive_passages.text: Great Expectations [is written vs has been written] by Charles Dickens
negative_passages.docid: 121795
negative_passages.text: What is the difference between 'past' and 'present perfect;?
negative_passages.docid: 8497
negative_passages.text: When is the past perfect exactly needed?
negative_passages.docid: 153687
negative_passages.text: What tense should I use to describe something in the past but probably is still true?
negative_passages.docid: 55521
negative_passages.text: Mixing tenses in past tense fiction
negative_passages.docid: 151473
negative_passages.text: Why do some words in the simple present end in -ed
negative_passages.docid: 18312
negative_passages.text: When is using the past perfect tense not necessary?
negative_passages.docid: 152081
negative_passages.text: Using the present tense for future event?
negative_passages.docid: 114989
negative_passages.text: The logic behind present perfect/infinitive + present perfect
negative_passages.docid: 152550
negative_passages.text: present tense with past perfect?
negative_passages.docid: 107801
negative_passages.text: Can we use "to be stripped" instead of "being stripped" in this sentence?
negative_passages.docid: 143716
negative_passages.text: Is such participle clause reducing usage constrained to only past tense?
negative_passages.docid: 130973
negative_passages.text: Logical/Etymological reason for unique conjugation of third person singular present tense
negative_passages.docid: 90991
negative_passages.text: Adverbs + Present Perfect
negative_passages.docid: 72419
negative_passages.text: Usage of past tenses with "wish"
negative_passages.docid: 35907
negative_passages.text: Is there a simple and clear way to explain the difference between past simple and present perfect?
negative_passages.docid: 63386
negative_passages.text: American dialects: Replacing the past-perfect participle with the simple-past form