perfective aspect

NOUN
  1. the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action
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How To Use perfective aspect In A Sentence

  • It has something that is similar, but it is really a distinction between imperfective and perfective aspect.
  • The cognitive origin is taken to be the basic linguistic distinction between imperfective and perfective aspects of verbs, which describe uncompleted and completed actions.
  • It has something that is similar, but it is really a distinction between imperfective and perfective aspect.
  • The imperfective aspect is used in a variety of circumstances where it is felt to imply some specific aspect of on-going activity.
  • In its verbal structure, English, like the Romance and Slavic languages, divides motion and being into and imperfective aspects. The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
  • English verbs have two aspects : the progressive aspect and the perfective aspect .
  • A solid piece of research that draws theoretically interesting conclusions about the semantics of the perfective aspect of Old Church Slavonian will have people questioning the wisdom of financing academia with taxpayers' money.
  • We show that these traditional models of perfective aspect cannot account for the aspectual system of Thai.
  • 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.
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