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Tense, aspect and voice combination
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lolelozano
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Tense, aspect and voice combination
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Good evening everyone,
I�m working on some exercises on Morphology and I�m not good at this. I have to determine whether each verb phrase is finite or nonfinite, and identify the tense. Identify the aspect, and if the verb is transitive, intransitive or copular.
Am I doing things correctly? Can anyone help me please?
CAME: copular verb .
WAS LYING: PROGRESSIVE ASPECT � PAST TENSE � (lying: nonfinite)
HAD TAKEN: PERFECT ASPECT � PAST TENSE (taken: nonfinite)
SLASHED: FINITE VERB
TOLD: nonfinite
HAD BEEN ATTACKED: PERFECT PROGRESSIVE ASPECT � PAST TENSE � been nonfinite �attackd_ finite
GOT: copular verb -
KNOW: nonfinite verb
WAS: copular verb
ASKED: FINITE VERB
SAID:
HAD GONE: PERFECT ASPECT � PAST TENSE
thanks a lot!
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7 Nov 2013
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douglas
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I would love to help you Lolelozano, but unfortunately this is beyond my capabilities--Good Luck.
Cheers,
Douglas |
8 Nov 2013
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ELOJOLIE274
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if i were you, i would create a chart:
column 1 the verb, column 2 finite or non-finite, column 3 tense, column 4 the aspect, column 5 etc...
it would be so much easier for us to read your message and for you to make sure you haven �t forgotten anything...
for some of your answers you need a context to fill the chart
for example KNOW:
1) to know the answer, I need to have a context
KNOW= non-finite (the rest of the column don �t need to be filled)
2) you know the answer.
KNOW = finite / present etc...
to help you with transitive, intransitive or copular verbs: http://www.linguisticsgirl.com/english-verbs-copular-intransitive-transitive-ditransitive-and-ambitransitive/
COME is not a copular verb IMHO - it cannot be replaced by BE:
ex: He became a superstar in the 1990s = he was etc...
He came to my house => *He WAS TO my house*???
He stayed in my house last night = he was in my house last night
Edit: Alex, it�s like you�re reading my mind :)
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8 Nov 2013
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almaz
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It might be easier, lolelozano, if you laid the exercise out as it was given to you. No offence, but it �s a bit of a dog �s breakfast the way you �ve presented it (capitals, lower case, brackets, colons, dashes etc). There �s no context for the verb phrases either, although I do understand that the exercise deals with morphology.
In the meantime, I can tell you that CAME (simple past of come) is not a copular ( �linking �) verb; you were probably thinking of become - which is. Also, WAS LYING is, as you say, a past progressive verb phrase, but I �m assuming the exercise required you to split this into (finite) auxiliary + (nonfinite) participle on the understanding that all forms of the verb except gerund-participles, past participles and infinitives are finite. But remember that forms like �told � can be both the simple past or the past participle. It �s also worth bearing in mind that main clauses are always finite with finite verb phrases ( �She was lying through her teeth �), while subordinate clauses can be either finite or nonfinite ( �she regrets lying to her teacher �).
Perhaps you could lay the original exercise out in some sort of tabular form?
Edit: Ooops, Elodie... we seem to have posted at the same time  |
8 Nov 2013
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