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Verbs, tense, aspect and mood
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- 1ASPECTIt tell us about the duration or the way an action extends.
Can be perfective or imperfective (flow in time) - 2SHAPESpelling or pronunciation.
- 3TENSEIt refers to time.
- 4MOODIt is how verbs change to show meaning.
Conditional, imperative, indicative (statements, interrogative and subjunctive. - 5MODALITYIt is more associated with mood rather than tense.
- 6What is the EPISTEMIC modality?It is based on possibilities or what you believe about something.
- 7What is the DEONTIC modality?It is based on obligations.
- 8INFLECTIONIt is the modification of a word to express different categories.
- 9PARADIGMAll the inflectional forms of a lexeme.
- 10SITUATIONIt refers to the things described by a clause.
- 11ASPECTIt is a construction that tells us about the perception of the situation by the speaker.
Perfective or imperfecive. - 12How many INFLECTIONAL FORMS does English have?Six, divided into PRIMARY and SECONDARY form.
- 13BACKSHIFTWhen we want to report something said before we change the time of our sentence. Backshift is used in the preterite.
- 14What is FUTURATE?When the present tense is used to locate situations in the future.
- 15SUBJUNCTIVEIt express suggestions, desires, wish, possibilities.
It is a mood.
Plain form of the verb.
It is always part of a dependent clause.
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- Flashcards on Verbs, tense, aspect and mood, created by Ximena Martínez on 11/11/2020.
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