query: Why "Present Simple Tense" not ''Present Perfect Tense''?
positive_passages.docid: 149988
positive_passages.text: Why did The New York Times use the present simple to describe a past event?
negative_passages.docid: 7461
negative_passages.text: Sequence of Tense
negative_passages.docid: 8497
negative_passages.text: When is the past perfect exactly needed?
negative_passages.docid: 25208
negative_passages.text: Speculative conditional: Why does it use the past tense or past perfect tense?
negative_passages.docid: 6340
negative_passages.text: "yet" vs. "already" with present perfect
negative_passages.docid: 40315
negative_passages.text: When will "Present Perfect vs. Past Tense" cases be affected by culture?
negative_passages.docid: 89680
negative_passages.text: Present tense in Flashback story for something that is still true now?
negative_passages.docid: 61308
negative_passages.text: Usage of 'future perfect' versus 'future simple'
negative_passages.docid: 126093
negative_passages.text: What verb tense do I use in this question?
negative_passages.docid: 41671
negative_passages.text: How many tenses are there in English?
negative_passages.docid: 44449
negative_passages.text: What is the name for the grammatical figure, where the present tense is substituted for a past event?
negative_passages.docid: 135844
negative_passages.text: Why do native speakers use the present continuous tense when talking about people in a picture? Why not the past continuous tense?
negative_passages.docid: 110190
negative_passages.text: tense agreement (simple past tense after past perfect tense)
negative_passages.docid: 6542
negative_passages.text: Dilemma: Present Perfect Or Perfect Continuous?
negative_passages.docid: 51083
negative_passages.text: Present tense for future events
negative_passages.docid: 122876
negative_passages.text: Simple past tense vs. perfect past tense
negative_passages.docid: 80452
negative_passages.text: present continous or present perfect continous?