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   Hi Anton -- on Aug 03 2020 at 00:40, you wrote:   
      
   AS> Raymond  Chandler's  short  story "Pearls are a nui-   
   AS> sance" has the following piece of dialogue:   
      
   AS>    "[...] The pearls  are  a  string  of  forty-nine   
   AS>    matched  pink  ones  which Mr. Penruddock gave to   
   AS>    Mrs. Penruddock for her golden  wedding  present.   
   AS>    She  hardly ever wore them lately, except perhaps   
   AS>    on Christmas or when she had a couple of very old   
   AS>    friends  in  to dinner and was well enough to sit   
   AS>    up. And every Thanksgiving she gives a dinner  to   
   AS>    all  the pensioners and friends and old employees   
   AS>    Mr. Penruddock left on her hands,  and  she  wore   
   AS>    them then."   
      
   AS>    "You  are  getting  your  verb  tenses  a  little   
   AS>    mixed," I said, "but the general idea  is  clear.   
   AS>    Go on."   
      
   AS> Have you an idea what corrections the spearker would   
   AS> have made?   
      
   The section starts in past tense "Mr. P GAVE", "when she HAD" etc. Then   
   suddenly shifts to present "she GIVES a diner" and back to past "she   
   WORE them".  Despite this, it does work as the pensioners' dinner   
   appears to have been in the past and is intended to continue in the   
   future.  Interesting example!   
      
      
   Cheers... Dallas   
      
   --- timEd/NT 1.30+   
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