The concept of aspect is often conflated and mixed up with the concept of tense. Although English largely separates tense and aspect formally, its aspects (neutral, progressive, perfect and progressive perfect) do not correspond very closely to the distinction of perfective vs. imperfective that is common in most other languages. [8] The division between aspect […]
Content 1. Introduction 2. Aspect and Tense of the English Verb in Theoretical Grammar 2.1 The history of the English verb 2.2 The characteristic of the Modern English verbs 2.3 Tense of the English Verbs 2.4 Peculiarities of Aspect in English 3. Conclusion 4. Works cited Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 In the English […]
The information above was given to facilitate understanding of the use of English verbs in the Indicative Mood. This mood represents actions or events as real facts. The Indicative Mood contains the category of tense. Each utterance demands an indication if the event is happening at the moment of speech, or it has happened earlier, […]
Many peculiarities of the English verbs were developed during the Old English period and fixed in Middle English. The verbs were falling into two subclasses: finite and non-finite. The verb in its finite forms could possess the categories of person, number, tense, aspect voice and mood. The non-finite forms (Verbals) are the Infinitive, Participle I, […]
2.1 The history of the English verb. During the Old English period, the system of the English verbs as well as the systems of all the rest Germanic languages possessed five main categories[2]: 1) the category of number. Here we can distinguish two types of number – singular (e.g. cat, school, way) and plural (cats, […]
The present work was an analysis of two important English grammatical categories: tense and aspect. I tried to formulate the history of the development of these categories and systematize the knowledge about them and their main elements that are used for expressing tenses and aspects – the Past Tense and Past Participle of the regular […]