COMPLETIVE: An action which takes place. "He spoke."
Grammar: The Structure of Language, Rachel Grenon
APPENDIX - Verb Aspects
COMPLETIVE: An action which takes place. "He spoke." Grammar: The Structure of Language, Rachel Grenon APPENDIX - Verb Aspects
ATTENUATIVE: A low-intensity action. "It glimmered." Grammar: The Structure of Language, Rachel Grenon APPENDIX - Verb Aspects
ACCIDENTAL: "I happened to knock over the chair." Grammar: The Structure of Language, Rachel Grenon Continuing a selective exploration of Grammar: The Structure of Language, one of Bloomsbury Publisher's Wooden Books series, authored by Rachel Grenon. The book's Appendix contains a list of Verb Aspects. The list is alphabetical, and hair-splittingly interesting.
From google: Aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how an action, event or state, denoted by a verb, relates to the flow of time. Determiners come before nouns and tell us something about their number, definiteness, proximity, and ownership.
Numerals – Cardinal and ordinal numbers before a noun; two donkeys, first night Grammar: The Structure of Language, Rachel Grenon, Wooden Books, Bloomsbury Photo taken in NYC |
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