Caveat-- the notion of dark energy may prove that some critical events in the universe's history are " not " caused by a " sequence of dependent events ".
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:: 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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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.
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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.
