 These are strong arguments against two perennially tempting ways to construe temporal becoming—as like motion or qualitative change. They are strong arguments against the existence of temporal becoming if there is no other way to understand it. Broad thought, however, that he had a third way. Having pointed out the superficial grammatical similarity between ‘\(E\) became louder’ and ‘\(E\) became present’, Broad said that our understanding of these two kinds of assertions need not be dictated by it. He wrote (1938, p. 280–1):