No doubt time is an abstract notion. However, we perceive it through an event at the NOW moment, and through what precedes and follows it (McTagart, 1993:456). Moreover, the perception of time is determined by our background knowledge (Wold, 1978:26) and inferences that enable us to relate events together through sequences of time and all the variables of the context, including assumptions about the socio-cultural structure of the society in which one lives (cf. Macfarlane, 1978;5). Eventually, time is a psychological phenomenon (Nyphus, 2003:3); it is built on man's experience through which he/she can perceive it. This psychological factor, as Al-Ramli (2005:22) asserts, determines any pragmatic interpretation of a text or a stretch of text in actual discourses and interactions.