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QUALITIES EXPRESSED BY VERBS
QUALITY
DEFINITION
TENSE
a temporal linguistic quality expressing the time at, during, or over which a state or action denoted by a verb occurs.
MOOD
a set of distinctive verb forms that are used to signal modality
modals are expressions broadly associated with notions of possibility and necessity (difference between ʻJohn MUST be illʼ and ʻJohn MUST be firedʼ)
VOICE
the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments (subject, object, etc.)
The cat ate the mouseʼ active voice
ASPECT
the temporal flow (or lack thereof) in the described event or state
In English, for example, the past-tense sentences "I swam" and "I was swimming" differ in aspect
PERSON
Grammatical person, in linguistics, is deictic reference to a participant in an event
he is, I am, they are...
ʻThe mouse was eatenʼ passive voice
QUALITIES EXPRESSED BY VERBS
QUALITY
DEFINITION
TENSE
a temporal linguistic quality expressing the time at, during, or over which a state or action denoted by a verb occurs.
MOOD
a set of distinctive verb forms that are used to signal modality
modals are expressions broadly associated with notions of possibility and necessity (difference between ʻJohn MUST be illʼ and ʻJohn MUST be firedʼ)
VOICE
the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments (subject, object, etc.)
The cat ate the mouseʼ active voice
ASPECT
the temporal flow (or lack thereof) in the described event or state
In English, for example, the past-tense sentences "I swam" and "I was swimming" differ in aspect
PERSON
Grammatical person, in linguistics, is deictic reference to a participant in an event
he is, I am, they are...
ʻThe mouse was eatenʼ passive voice
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