Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar of the english verb phrase part 113', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Glossary 777 but it was not yet a fact at the time of the head clause situation and the speaker leaves it vague whether Bill eventually arrived or not. Factual full situation In clauses in one of the perfect tenses with a continuative reading this term refers to that part of the full situation that has actualized in a period leading up to the relevant orientation time which is the temporal zero-point in the case of the present perfect . Thus in Meg has been talking to the elephant for an hour now the temporal adverbial specifies not only the length of the pre-present zone but also the duration of the situation time coinciding with that pre-present zone. The full situation may or may not include t0 and extend into the post-present. If it does it consists not only of a part that is factual at t0 but also of a potential present and post-present part. The part that is factual at t0 is called the factual full situation . The entire situation including both the t0-factual part and the potential part is called the potential full situation . Finite clause clause whose verb form is a finite verb form. Finite verb form verb form that is marked for at least one of the grammatical categories tense mood person and number. For example the finite verb form works is marked for tense present mood indicative person third and number singular . By contrast a verb form that is an infinitive gerund or participle is a nonfinite verb form. Focalizing when-clause when-clause which does not specify the time of the head clause situation or a time to which the time of the head clause situation is related but expresses the speaker s temporal focus on a time of evaluation or observation. In one subtype the when-clause suggests the idea of a travelling observing consciousness e. g. When you travel to Washington Boston Chicago or New York the same problems exist in another the focalizing when-clause indicates the epistemic time of evaluation i. e. the time when the conclusion is reached that the
