query: Why did The New York Times use the present simple to describe a past event?
positive_passages.docid: 135290
positive_passages.text: Why are news headlines in present tense if they refer to past events?
negative_passages.docid: 98966
negative_passages.text: Is it correct to say "We start tomorrow"? Shouldn't it be "We are starting tomorrow"? (present simple vs continuous for future event)
negative_passages.docid: 51083
negative_passages.text: Present tense for future events
negative_passages.docid: 24085
negative_passages.text: Past tense or present tense to describe something that 'happened in the past' but is still true?
negative_passages.docid: 22092
negative_passages.text: Why do we use 'did' with questions using the simple past tense?
negative_passages.docid: 79896
negative_passages.text: Question about articles: Why is "before the train came" correct?
negative_passages.docid: 99626
negative_passages.text: Present perfect or past simple
negative_passages.docid: 49020
negative_passages.text: Is past simple ever justified with 'by'?
negative_passages.docid: 146150
negative_passages.text: US news articles missing out "on" when referring to a day
negative_passages.docid: 49506
negative_passages.text: Can I use a present-tense verb when writing about a past event?
negative_passages.docid: 75236
negative_passages.text: "have read" vs "read" - Is this simple present vs present perfect?
negative_passages.docid: 65426
negative_passages.text: Difference between Simple Past and Past Perfect
negative_passages.docid: 63386
negative_passages.text: American dialects: Replacing the past-perfect participle with the simple-past form
negative_passages.docid: 17313
negative_passages.text: Using past tense when referencing a still-true fact
negative_passages.docid: 55425
negative_passages.text: Tense for an event that occurs as you read it
negative_passages.docid: 73018
negative_passages.text: To tell about a guess about a case in the past, why use "would+have+past participle" instead of "must+have+past participle?
negative_passages.docid: 47451
negative_passages.text: Present Perfect or simple past?