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UK
/pəfˈɛktɪv/
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NOUN
- the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action
- a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
How To Use perfective In A Sentence
- On the other hand, some imperfectives are compatible with both present simple and present progressive, whereas others - the so-called statives, as in - are compatible only with the simple present.
- We show that these traditional models of perfective aspect cannot account for the aspectual system of Thai.
- (Points: 4) perfectively competitive monopolistically competitive oligopolistic monopolistic Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
- The perfective aspect is usually formed from the imperfective either by prefixation or by suffixation.
- One approach to these complex verb forms might be to analyse exponents of progressive and perfective aspect (be and have) as modifiers of the bare verb.
- The effective enforcement of anti-monopoly law depends on building perfective and practicable enforcement.
- For example, Diyari and Dhirari - two Australian languages utilize different sets of markers for implicated clauses, imperfective relative clauses and perfective relative clauses, as the following table shows.
- In an English narrative, the action, the bare bones of the plot, are rendered with the perfective tenses, while the background is filled in with imperfective tenses. The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
- Therefore, this sacrament is materially many, but formally and perfectively one. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
- English verbs have two aspects : the progressive aspect and the perfective aspect .
