Inglise keele struktuur
to school, paint a picture, grow up, deliver a sermon, recover from illness
Achievements (point events) - express changes of state, inherently temporally bounded
(telic); instantaneous: recognise, find, stop, start, reach the top, win the race
spot someone
Semelfactives - punctual events (+/- dynamic),
atelic, punctual: cough, flash, shoot, knock, sneeze
Active accomplishments - dynamic, telic, unpunctual: march to the
park, eat the fish, paint sb's portrait
The category of aspect : The term ASPECT refers to a grammatical category which reflects
the way in which the verb action is regarded or experienced with respect to time.
The two aspect constructions: the perfective (complete) and the progressive (in progress)
These two aspects may combine within a single verb phrase (She has been reading)
Tense and aspect combine freely in a complex verb phrase:
annaabi.ee 
