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In a strict linguistic sense, these are not tenses, they are... aspects, I think. In practice, you can lump tense, aspect, and mood together and call them all
by jcranmer 4y ago
In a strict linguistic sense, these are not tenses, they are... aspects, I think.
In practice, you can lump tense, aspect, and mood together and call them all "tenses." Especially because many languages can end up partially conflating them, insisting on a formal dichotomy based on the specific information being conveyed in verb forms or based on how it is grammatically represented (inflection versus modal verbs versus what have you).