The impact of linguistic and pedagogical research on aspect and tense of verbs in English language

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.6-17.030

Akbarov Azamat,

Professor, Dean, Faculty of philology and pedagogical sciences

Suleyman Demirel University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

e-mail: azamatakbar@yahoo.com

The majority of attempts to describe tense and aspect of verbs in English language has led to a discussion, but not to direct explanation of the grammatical categories. Generally, the discussion provokes a range of questions, such as: debates on existence of the future tense, differentiation of tense and aspect as specific characteristic of a verb. It also includes a method used in grammar and course books to describe tense and aspect in terms of quantity and absence of aspect.  The aim of the article is to demonstrate a lack of agreement on the above-written issues and illustrate tense and aspect of verbs from linguistic and pedagogical point of view. Moreover, a research is made to explain an impact of disagreement on the study of tense and aspect of verbs in English language. 

Keywords: tense, time, aspect, linguistics, pedagogy.

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