English Grammar compared to Greek Grammar

English Grammar compared to Greek Grammar

Present Tense

Same or Similar	Different
The following usages are found in English, German, Greek and Latin.
Narrow-Band Presents
I. A. Instantaneous Present p.517 ???	I. B. Progressive Present p.518 [English: Present Continuous Tense] Continuous [at this present time, right now.]
Broad-Band Presents
II. C. Customary (Habitual or General) Present p.521 Repeated; longer length. (Note: II. B. Iterative Present has minor difference with this use.) Repeated	II. A. Extending-from-Past Present (Present of Past Actions Still in Progress) p.519. [English: Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous.]
Special Uses of Presents
II. D. Gnomic Present (General, or Timeless Fact) p.523 - truth
III. A. Historical Present (Dramatic Present) p.526	III. B. Perfective Present p.532 [1]
III. D. Futuristic Present p.535 [2]	III. C. Conative Present p.534
	III. E. Present Retained in Indirect Discourse p.537
	English has emphatic form: I do work.

II. A. & III. C. are rare cases.

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[1] Though Latin has similar usage, Annalistic Present, but it is used "for the perfect in a summary enumerated of past events." (Greenough, p.295, section 469). The Greek emphasize that the results from a past action are still continuing. (Wallace, p.532).

[2] In Latin, the Present is used for Future in colloquial language and poetry. (Greenough, p.295, s 468).