"aspect" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The habitual and progressive aspects can be combined in English, as in "He used to be playing.
- Thus in English the gnomic aspect takes the same form as the habitual aspect.
- Some varieties add progressive or habitual aspects.
- In Turkish the aorist is a habitual aspect.
- The first expresses habitual aspect (or motion in no single direction), while the second expresses progressive aspect.
- The unmarked verb, frequently used, can indicate habitual aspect or perfective aspect in the past.
- The preterite, when used to indicate habitual aspect, can often be replaced by a compound construction:
- Kriol does not have a habitual aspect in its own right.
- There are also certain other uses (including those mentioned in the following paragraph) in which the simple present does not reflect a habitual aspect.
- Expression of habitual aspect in past time, as in Back then, I would eat early and would walk to school.
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