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    The document discusses how tense relates to time while aspect relates to the internal structure of an action. It separates tense and aspect and then shows how their combinations form a system that is easier to understand when separated first. It provides a table showing the combinations of simple, perfect, progressive, and perfect progressive aspects across the present, past, and future tenses. Finally, it instructs students to work in pairs and groups to research definitions and examples of the tenses and aspects, then present their findings.

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    The document discusses how tense relates to time while aspect relates to the internal structure of an action. It separates tense and aspect and then shows how their combinations form a system that is easier to understand when separated first. It provides a table showing the combinations of simple, perfect, progressive, and perfect progressive aspects across the present, past, and future tenses. Finally, it instructs students to work in pairs and groups to research definitions and examples of the tenses and aspects, then present their findings.

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    Tense Aspect Relationship

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    The document discusses how tense relates to time while aspect relates to the internal structure of an action. It separates tense and aspect and then shows how their combinations form a system that is easier to understand when separated first. It provides a table showing the combinations of simple, perfect, progressive, and perfect progressive aspects across the present, past, and future tenses. Finally, it instructs students to work in pairs and groups to research definitions and examples of the tenses and aspects, then present their findings.

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    Tense which relates to time, and aspect, which has to do with the internal structure of the action

    occurring at any time, are dealt with separately at first, the system that results from their subsequence
    combinations is much easier to see and, therefore, easier to learn.

    Aspect Simple Perfect Progressive Perfect


    Tense Progressive
    0 Have + -en Be + -ing Have + -en
    Be + -ing
    Present Write/writes Has/have written Am/is/are writing Has/have been writing
    Has/had been walking
    Walk/walks Has/have walked Am/is/are walking
    Past Wrote Had written Was/were writing Had been walking
    Had been walking
    walked Had walked Was/were walking
    Future Will write Will have written Will be writing Will have been writing
    Will have been walking
    Will walk Will have walked Will be walking

    In pairs they will go to caadi, internet or library to look for definition and examples of the different
    tenses and aspects. In groups of four they will share what they have and compare and complement the
    information they have. They will present the tenses at random.

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