TOPIC 19

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TOPIC 19 TIME AND TENSE. ASPECT AND MOOD. INDEX 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. KEY CONCEPTS 3 3. ASPECT 3 3.1. Aspect 3 3.2. Stative Verbs 3 3.3. Non-finite forms 4 4. EXPRESSING TIME IN ENGLISH 4 4.1. Present time 4 Present Simple: 4 Present Progressive (or Continuous): 4 4.2. Past time 5 4.3. Future time 6 5. MOOD 7 5.1. Mood 7 5.2. Imperative 8 5.3. Subjunctive 8 6. DIDACTIC TRANSPOSITION 9 7. CONCLUSION 9 9. BIBLIOGRAPHY 9 INTRODUCTION Time flows from the past, through the present, and into the future. While real time is indeed real, tense is not. Tense only manifests in grammar: it is a verbal representation of real time. Aspect is also grammatical, and it indicates whether an action is complete or in progress. And mood reflects the speaker’s attitude towards what is being said. We’ll see these concepts in this topic mainly through definitions and explanations of authors like Carter & McCarthy (2006) or Quirk et al. (1985). These concepts can be applied in class by complying with Key Competence Plurilingualism and more specifically operational descriptor CP2 according to LOMLOE. KEY CONCEPTS Time is real, which means that it’s always moving forward from the past, through the pr...