Verbs in Sa are usually (though not always) preceded by verb markers indicating the tense, aspect and mood of the action.

The auxiliary "will" can also be used to indicate gnomic aspect ("boys will be boys").

The tenses are conjugated by means of prefixes and infixes indicating person, mood, implication, and aspect.

Most varieties of Chinese use post-verbal particles to indicate aspect, but the particles used vary.

Each position has an interpretation indicating what aspect of the question the card in that position is referring to.

In Saanich, metathesis is used as a grammatical devise to indicate "actual" aspect.

Cantonese particles may be added to the end of a sentence or suffixed to verbs to indicate 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:

They make heavy use of grammatical particles to indicate aspect and mood.