INTRODUCTION 3
1. TENSE SYSTEM IN ENGLISH NEWSPAPER ARTICLES 5
1.1 Present Tense in newspaper articles 6
1.2 Past Tense in newspaper articles 8
1.3 Futurity in newspaper articles 8
1.4 Omission of the Verb "be" in newspaper articles 9
1.5 The Present Progressive in newspaper articles 9
1.6 Present Perfect in newspaper articles 10
2 THE PRESENT PERFECT (PP) – OVERALL DEVELOPMENT 11
2.1 The frequency of the PP in standard British English (BrE) and American English (AmE) 11
2.2 The PP and the SP 13
3 CO-OCCURRENCE WITH TEMPORAL ADVERBIALS 14
3.1 Adverbs indicating current relevance 14
3.2 PPs with past tense adverbials 16
CONCLUSION 19
References 21