:: Wow, I was reading through the responses and was planning on adding a comment on dependent events, and even using the same meteor example, until I saw you had it covered!
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Statistics classes spend entirely too much time on various formulae, and yet never seem to cover the basics like how to tell dependent events from independent or how to take an unbiased sample.
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Another factor influencing use of deranking is lack of realisation of the dependent event, which often leads in purpose, desiderative and manipulative clauses to the use of moods that cannot be used in independent clauses.
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Relations that are temporal and imply that the dependent event takes place within a particular time reference relative to the main event favour verb forms that are unmarked for tense or aspect for the same reason.
