Hi,
I was just wondering, would there be another way to teach the different aspects than calling them the tenses? Because English is basically a language with a tripartite tense system.
The category of aspect is one more often applied to languages such as Russian or Hopi, but it
is, in fact, equally applicable to English since the so-called “compound tenses”, the perfect and
the progressive, are better treated as expressions of the aspect. (The structure of modern English, Brinton, LJ, p.113)
I would love to know the perspective of another teacher on this matter.
Thank you!
Shiny
