Summary Explaning English Grammar - Tense and Aspect

J.A

SUMMARY
TENSE AND ASPECT

Overview
Some basic meaning distinctions between different tense forms are offered in terms of the REMOTE (or not) and FACTUAL (or not) status of perceived situations including notes on the future, time expressions, and the HISTORICAL PRESENT. A distinction is made between LEXICAL ASPECT, concerned with inherent properties of verb meaning such as STATIVE, DYNAMIC, PUNCTUAL, and DURATIVE, and GRAMMATICAL ASPECT, concerned with an internal versus an external perspective on situations.

Basic forms
The basic element in a English sentence is the ver. We need to talk about TENSE, to describe different forms of the verb. English has two distinct tense forms, PRESENT and PAST TENSE, and to two distinct forms for the aspect, PERFECT and PROGRESSIVE ASPECT. The MODAL VERB will is included typically as an indication of future reference.

Basic English Verbs Forms
Verb forms Examples
Simple present I love your Mercedes
Present progressive you are standing too close to it.
Simple past I wanted a car just like it.
Past progressive you were aiming too high.
Simple future I will work for it
Future progressive you will be working forever
Present perfect I have worked hard before
Present perfect progressive you have been working for nothing.
Past perfect(pluperfect) I had saved my money
Past perfect progressive you had been saving pennies
Future perfect I will have saved enough
Future perfect progressive you will have been saving in vain

We always need a basic verb (e.g. eat,, love,sleep) and a basic tense, either past or present. With a tense (e.g. past) and verb (e.g. eat, we can create the simple verb structure in I ate. Changes the tense to