Time Direction / Tense
Is it in the past, present, or future?
含义
The event's direction relative to the speaker's 'now': before, at, after, or relative to another reference time.
如何识别
Ask whether the event is earlier, now, later, or relative to another event.
示例
past|present|future|will|did
went yesterday|will go tomorrow|is here now
She will call tomorrow.
Visual guide
Speaker's NOW
│
PAST ◄── now ──► FUTURE
went is will go
Time direction = event's side
of now or another reference.
B02 vs B01: She will call tomorrow. will call → FUTURE side of now tomorrow → WHEN on timeline Languages may mark B02 on verb, with particle, time word, context.
语言视角
用母语深入讲解
Mandarin does not have grammatical tense inflection; past, present, and future are usually inferred from time words, aspect, modality, and context.
我明天去上海。
wǒ míngtiān qù Shànghǎi = I tomorrow go Shanghai
在所学语言中
英语中作谓语的动词通常会显示现在或过去；将来多用 will、be going to 等结构或上下文来表达。
She worked yesterday.
worked = 用过去式表示事件在过去发生
学习者可能以为将来一定有一个固定的动词词尾，也可能忘记过去式 -ed 或不规则过去式。
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.