Event Shape / Aspect
Is it ongoing, completed, habitual, repeated, or just starting?
Значение
The internal time shape of an event: in progress, finished, repeated, habitual, started, continued, or result-focused.
Как распознать
Ask how the event unfolds over time, not just when it happens.
Примеры
still|already|used to|finished|ongoing
is reading|has written|keeps asking
She is writing the letter.
Visual guide
Event = line, aspect = shape start ── writing ── end now: [in progress] She is writing the letter. Ask: ongoing? finished? repeated?
Time vs aspect: WHEN? past / now / future SHAPE? ongoing / done / habitual English: is reading / has written Other languages: verb form, aux, particle, prefix, or context
Разбор по языкам
В родном языке
Perfective/imperfective aspect is central and usually obligatory in verb choice.
Я прочитал книгу.
I read the book through.
На изучаемом языке
В английском важно не только время события, но и то, как говорящий его показывает: как факт, процесс, завершённое действие или действие с результатом. Формы progressive, perfect и perfect progressive меняют этот взгляд на событие.
She has been studying.
has been studying = длительное действие, начавшееся раньше и актуальное сейчас
Изучающие часто смешивают простые, длительные и perfect-формы, особенно present perfect и simple past.
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.