Make sure you know what the following concepts mean and how to use them appropriately:

• tense
• aspect
• event vs. state (using the information in chapter 9 if needed)
• finiteness
• result state

• that syntactic or morphological tense does not always correspond to semantic tense; 
• the different interpretations of tenses, for instance:
• that the present tense is interpreted as present with states, habitual with events;
• the different interpretations of aspects, for instance:
• that the present progressive has a temporal frame reading with events (example (25)), but for states the temporal frame reading is the present (example (26));
• that the present progressive is either unacceptable with states, or suggests temporariness (examples in (27) vs. (28));
• also check the interpretations of the perfect, and their interaction with eventuality type (event vs. state) and time adverbials.

• formalize simple tenses with the operators Pres, Past, Fut (see example (21));
• give the truth conditions of sentences with simple tenses (see example (24));
• give a Reichenbachean analysis of the English verb group.