1. Primary Tenses
(Unchanging
facts about the world)

2. Italians eat pasta.

3. Italians do eat pasta. A lot.
Finite Predicate
Italians do eat pasta. A lot.

4. Italians eat pasta a lot.
Finite/Predicate
Italians eat pasta a lot.

5. Every Italian does eat pasta a lot.
Finite Predicate
Every Italian does eat pasta a lot.

6. Every Italian eats pasta a lot.
Finite/Predicate
Every Italian eats pasta a lot.

7. Many Italians did eat pasta yesterday.
Finite Predicate
Many Italians did eat pasta yesterday.

8. Many Italians ate pasta yesterday.
Finite/Predicate
Many Italians ate pasta yesterday.

9. Italians will eat pasta tomorrow.
Finite Predicate
Italians will eat pasta tomorrow.

10. Italians will not eat pasta tomorrow.
Mood Adjunct
Finite Predicate
Italians will not eat pasta tomorrow.

11. Italians won’t eat pasta tomorrow.
Mood Adjunct
Finite Predicate
Italians won’t eat pasta tomorrow.

12. Italians do eat pasta. (An Italian does pasta.) did will
Review: Primary Tenses
Subject
Finite
Predicate
Complement
PRESENT
Italians do
eat
pasta.
(An Italian
does
pasta.)
PAST
did
FUTURE
will