0 the use of a verb in the present to describe past events, either informally, or to produce a special effect
It is also unusual in allowing be -ing in past habitual and preterite contexts, although the latter may sometimes overlap with the historic present of narration.
Secondly, the draft resolution makes a political assessment of the historic present.
Literary critics and grammarians have said that the historic present has the effect of making past events more vivid.
It is the obvious consequence of this interpretation of the historic present.
