... except the subject, in otherwords, of the verb phrase and of additional optional phrases, if any.Predicated situation: that part of the full situation (possibly all of it) aboutwhich an assertion ... example,They climbed the Matterhorn, which was very steep differs from They climbed the Matterhorn, which is very steep in that by using the past tense the speakerassumes the point of view of the ... way of conceptualizing things, such as a future world, the hypothetical world of the imagination of the speaker, a counterfactual world, etc. Thus, Paris is the capi-tal of France is true in the...