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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Aspect

Are past simple, present simple and future simple tenses aspectless?
  

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Anonymous Are past simple, present simple and future simple tenses aspectless? lemma=Aspect&lemmacode=1041

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AnonymousAre past simple, present simple and future simple tenses aspectless?
No; they are imperfective aspect: http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Aspect&lemmacode=1041
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Thanks for the reply and the link.
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For me, the simple tenses in English are aspect-free. As Huddleston & Pullum (2002.124) point out. " [in English] the simple present and preterite can both be used either perfectively or imperfectively".

Many grammarians consider that English has two aspects, the progressive (continuous) and the perfect, though some, including H & P and Declerck prefer to think of the perfect forms as ten
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