Adverbials of Time, Time Expressions and Tense Shifts in Alice Munro’s “Dance of the Happy Shades”

Alice Munro, the first female Canadian to have been awarded Nobel Prize for literature, is a literary challenge and delight reader also with regards usage of references time their linguistic construction. Her work comprises short stories one novel, which can more accurately be described as story cycle. She takes interest in everyday, small-town life human relationships it, all concise, down-to-earth language. The settings most her are limited communities typically context. This paper deals “Dance Happy Shades” from collection same name (1968), focuses on stylistic analysis expressions, tense shifts adverbials time. Munro has praised constructing moods familiarity, home safety. attempts show that she achieves this not solely through plot themes, but meticulous care uses shifts.