query: Past tense or present tense to describe something that 'happened in the past' but is still true?
positive_passages.docid: 11264
positive_passages.text: "He didn't know where New Jersey was"
negative_passages.docid: 143589
negative_passages.text: How do we use zero conditional and first conditional to talk about things in the past
negative_passages.docid: 21925
negative_passages.text: Why do people sometimes use the past perfect form of a verb when the past would suffice? (e.g. "you had mentioned")
negative_passages.docid: 28026
negative_passages.text: Can we use "Now" (not until now or until then) in past tense sentences
negative_passages.docid: 15527
negative_passages.text: Simple Past Vs Past Continuous
negative_passages.docid: 100002
negative_passages.text: Past Simple vs. Present Perfect
negative_passages.docid: 67080
negative_passages.text: Verb agreement for something that was discussed in the past, while the issue still exists in the present
negative_passages.docid: 12310
negative_passages.text: When is the present perfect tense used instead of the past tense?
negative_passages.docid: 140274
negative_passages.text: Are there dialects where "would have" is used to describe a factual event long in the past?
negative_passages.docid: 35695
negative_passages.text: Past perfect or past simple with before
negative_passages.docid: 55521
negative_passages.text: Mixing tenses in past tense fiction
negative_passages.docid: 152081
negative_passages.text: Using the present tense for future event?
negative_passages.docid: 45224
negative_passages.text: Inversion + past tense
negative_passages.docid: 122876
negative_passages.text: Simple past tense vs. perfect past tense
negative_passages.docid: 87312
negative_passages.text: Using 'is' or 'was' when something is still true
negative_passages.docid: 97065
negative_passages.text: Is "what happened is" correct?
negative_passages.docid: 119517
negative_passages.text: What's the difference between the simple past tense and the present perfect?