Hi everyone
She does not die Vs. She’s not death
Which one is more natural ?
Could you think of any situation We are using the present tense instead of the past tense of the verb “die” ? Could you explain a little bit ?
She died = She was death.
(Suppose it happened this morning, I said it in the same day in the afternoon. is my usage correct ?)
She dies = She is death.
(Suppose it happened this morning, I said it in the morning (after an half hour). is my usage correct ?)
Instead of “death”, your sentences need to use “dead”. “She’s not dead.”, “She was dead.”, “She is dead.”
The only time I can envision using the present tense is when describing the plot of a book, play, movie, etc. “The bad guy pushes her off a cliff into the ocean, but she does not die.”
Unless she has come back to life (possibly been resuscitated) you need to use the present tense with ‘dead’:
She died (this morning) / She is dead (now).
She died, but the doctors performed CPR and restarted her heart.
She was dead, but the doctors performed CPR and restarted her heart.
The first still need to be past tense:
She died (half an hour ago) / She is dead (now).
Can you think of any situation where we would use the present tense instead of the past tense of the verb “die”?
As well as Luschen’s suggestion, you could, of course, use it metaphorically:
I die every time I think of that embarrassing incident.
(You don’t literally die, but the verb is often used figuratively to indicate extreme embarrassment.)
There are also a number of idioms and phrasal verbs where it would be possible to use ‘die’ in the present tense. For example ‘to die laughing’.
I die laughing every time I hear that joke, even though I already know what’s coming.
More here:
oxfordlearnersdictionaries.c … lish/die_1
She did not die/She has not died/ She’s not dead.
‘She does not die’ indicates that she habitually doesn’t die when she ought to!
That plant is very hardy! It doesn’t matter how badly I mistreat it, it does not die. Even if I don’t water it for 6 months, it just springs back to life once it is watered.
Yes, Thank you. It should be “dead” an adj, not a noun. I wrongly used it in my question :).
Thank you Bee. Your explanation is very detailed. I really appreciate your help.
So For the case that a person stopped breathing, “die” is always used with past tense and dead (adj) goes with the present tense.
Bee, Below is what I think about the usage. Could you please correct me if I am wrong ?
Dead is to describe a state and die is an action verb. So We cannot say Someone WAS dead or someone dies (unless he/she comes alive again, I aware that die has metaphor meaning. In this thread, I would like to discover further the case of stop breathing, really die, 
I saw a dictionary, we can use “my car has died/ dies” to indicate that it’s not working") .
In normal situation, She dies/ She WAS dead is incorrect ?
Yes, ‘she dies/she was dead’ is usually incorrect, other than in stage directions, explanations of film or story plots, etc. ass Luschen indicates.
In normal situations
She died / She is dead
is correct.
Once someone dies, they don’t usually come back to life, so from that point on they are in a state of being dead, and they remain dead into the future.
She has been dead for 4 weeks
is another common tense.
Thank you Bee.