Презентация на тему The category of aspect

shows the character of the action from the point

of view of its progress or its completion.

ASPECT

Russian language which differ both in form and in

meaning:

English verbs, many foreign grammarians are of the opinion

that such a category does not exist in the English language.
They speak of only tense distinctions and thus find four groups of tenses:
Indefinite
Continuous,
Perfect
Perfect continuous

category in the English verb and say that aspect

in English may be expressed in two ways: by lexical and grammatical means.

of the verb. It’s a well-known fact that English

verbs fall under two classes:
terminative (those which denote an action implying a certain limit beyond which it cannot go: to come, to stop, to complete, etc.)
durative (those which denote an action which does not imply any limit, that is without an end in view: to study, to carry, to keep, etc.)

aspect distinctions in English may be expressed by means

of grammatical forms.

The most widely spread view on this point is that the category of aspect is expressed through the opposition of continuous/ non-continuous (or common) aspect forms (asks- is asking) in which the Common aspect is the unmarked member, whereas the Continuous aspect is marked, its marker is the combination “be + ing”.