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QUALITIES EXPRESSED BY VERBS

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Added Text QUALITY DEFINITION

TENSE a temporal linguistic quality

expressing the time at,
during, or over which a
state or action denoted by a
verb occurs.

MOOD a set of distinctive verb modals are expressions

forms that are used to
signal modality
broadly associated with
notions of possibility and
necessity (difference
between ʻJohn MUST be illʼ
and ʻJohn MUST be firedʼ)

VOICE the relationship between The cat ate the mouseʼ -

the action (or state) that the active voice
verb expresses and the
participants identified by its ʻThe mouse was eatenʼ -
arguments (subject, object, passive voice
etc.)

ASPECT the temporal flow (or lack In English, for example, the
thereof) in the described past-tense sentences "I
event or state swam" and "I was
swimming" differ in aspect

PERSON Grammatical person, in he is, I am, they are...

linguistics, is deictic
reference to a participant in
an event