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  2. Habitual aspect - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, the aspect of a verb is a grammatical category that defines the temporal flow (or lack thereof) in a given action, event, or state. [1] [2] As its name suggests, the habitual aspect (abbreviated HAB), not to be confused with iterative aspect or frequentative aspect, specifies an action as occurring habitually: the subject performs the action usually, ordinarily, or customarily.

  3. English markers of habitual aspect - Wikipedia

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    Habitual be, also called invariant be, is the use of an uninflected be in African-American English (AAE), Caribbean English and Hiberno-English to mark habitual or extended actions in place of the Standard English inflected forms of be, such as is and are. This is referred to as the habitual aspect of the verb "to be".

  4. Grammatical aspect - Wikipedia

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    Hindi has three aspects, habitual aspect, perfective aspect and the progressive aspect. Each of these three aspects are formed from their participles. The aspects of Hindi when conjugated into their personal forms can be put into five grammatical moods: indicative, presumptive, subjunctive, contrafactual, and imperative. In Hindi, the aspect ...

  5. Habitual be - Wikipedia

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    Habitual be, also called invariant be, is the use of an uninflected be in African-American English (AAE), Caribbean English and Hiberno-English to mark habitual or extended actions in place of the Standard English inflected forms of be, such as is and are. This is referred to as the habitual aspect of the verb "to be".

  6. Tense–aspect–mood - Wikipedia

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    Within the indicative mood, there is a present tense habitual aspect form (which can also be used with stative verbs), a past tense habitual aspect form (which also can be used with stative verbs), a near past tense form, a remote past tense form (which can also be used to convey past perspective on an immediately prior situation or event), a ...

  7. Irrealis mood - Wikipedia

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    Aspect Tense Sentence Translation Hindi Habitual Present tū kartā hoga abhī: You must/might be doing it now. Past tū kartā hogā pêhlē. You must/might have done it before (habitually in the past). Perfective Present tūnē kiyā hogā abhī. You must/might have done now. Past tūnē kiyā hogā pêhlē.

  8. Gnomic aspect - Wikipedia

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    Used to describe an aspect, the gnomic is considered neutral by not limiting the flow of time to any particular conception (for example, the conceptions of time as continuous, habitual, perfective, etc.). Used to describe a mood, the gnomic is considered neutral by not limiting the expression of words to the speaker's attitude toward them (e.g ...

  9. Sentence diagram - Wikipedia

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    A sentence diagram is a pictorial representation of the grammatical structure of a sentence. The term "sentence diagram" is used more when teaching written language, where sentences are diagrammed. The model shows the relations between words and the nature of sentence structure and can be used as a tool to help recognize which potential ...