GRAMMAR REVIEW EP.

I:

The Overview of the English Verb

System
Lexicon-Grammar
Prof. Leonardo Correa

Objetives

GENERAL: to review the English Grammar

Framework/system

SPECIFIC:
- Review the concepts of Form, Meaning and
Use;
- Study the time frames and grammar aspects;

Ex.: Present Perfect

Form:
Subject + Have/Has + Past Participle

Use:
To refer to an action in the past that influences the
present

Ex.: Present Perfect

Meaning(s):
- An event in the past without a definite time
Helen has broken her arm

- A state or repeating event lasting until the present

Ive lived here for 10 years

- To describe experiences
Jane has been to Paris and London

- Completion
Ive just finished reading Civil War

GRAMMAR STRUCTURE
All verbs in the English Language are constituted
by two factors:

A Time Frame and An Aspect

Time Frame: It tells you when something took

place.
Aspect: It tells you how the verb is related to that
time or gives you some more information about the
quality of the action.

Time Frame

PAST

PRESENT

FUTURE

Aspect
ASPECT

MEANING

SIMPLE

at that time

PROGRESSIVE/
CONTINUOUS

in progress during that time

PERFECT

before that time

PERFECT PROGRESSIVE/
CONTINUOUS

in progress during and

before that time

LARSEN-FREEMAN, D (1997)

LARSEN-FREEMAN, D (1997)

Exercises

See handout.