Inglise keele struktuur
(c) State past
Meanings of the past tense with reference to present and future time:
(a) Indirect speech
(b) The attitudinal past
(c) The hypothetical past
Constructions for expressing future time:
- will/shall + infinitive
- be going to + infinitive
- the present progressive
- the simple present
- will/shall + the progressive infinitive
- be about to
- be + to infinitive
Vendler's classification of verbs and semifactives:
States - static situations, inherently temporally unbounded (atelic): desire, want, love,
hate, know, believe
Activities (unbounded processes) - dynamic state of affairs, inherently temproally
unbounded (atelic): run, walk, swim, push a cart, drive a car
Accomplishments (bound processes) - expresses changes of state, inherently
temporally bounded (telic), not instantaneous: run a mile, draw a circle, walk
to school, paint a picture, grow up, deliver a sermon, recover from illness
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