Assertion: verb's action | /r/CapableOf | take place
Facets:
value: at a specific time
type: TEMPORAL
value: sometime in the future
type: TEMPORAL
value: in the past
type: TEMPORAL
value: of english
type: OTHER
value: of spanish
type: OTHER
value: at the present moment
type: TEMPORAL
value: habitually
type: MANNER
value: regularly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: When learning the rules of grammar, schoolchildren are often taught that verbs are ‘doing’ words, meaning they signify the part of the sentence which explains the action taking place: He ran away, she eats chocolate cake on Sundays, the horses gallop across the fields.
text: These auxiliary verbs give some context to the main verb, for example, letting the reader know when the action took place.
text: and it tells the reader, what action is taking place.
text: These verbs are inactive, which means that no action is taking place.
text: What action is taking place?
text: In referring to an action taking place regularly (and not limited to the future or to the past), the simple present is used: He brushes his teeth every morning.
text: For an action taking place at the present time, the present progressive construction is used: He is brushing his teeth now.
text: These show us what will happen before some other future action takes place.
text: To refer to an action or event that takes place habitually.
text: This contrasts with the present progressive, which is used for actions taking place at the present moment.
text: The present perfect (traditionally called simply the perfect) combines present tense with perfect aspect, denoting the present state of an action's being completed, that is, that the action took place before the present time.
text: Although the tenses—the aspect of verbs usually used to indicate when the verb's action takes place—of Spanish and English usually parallel each other, there are differences.
text: The tense of a verb tells us the time when the action took place, in the past, the present or the future.
text: The present tense is made up of simple present / present simple (actions which happen regularly), present continuous / present progressive (actions which are taking place now) and present perfect (actions which are now completed).
text: The past tense is made up of simple past / past simple (actions which took place at a specific time and are now finished), past continuous / past progressive (Actions which took place in the past over a period of time) and past perfect (actions which were completed by a particular point in the past).
text: You’ll also discover how to tell in speech and writing when an action takes place and understand how to express yourself in different situations.
text: Each of these different tenses in English verb conjugation describe an action taking place at different times.
text: They can also describe the period of a physical or mental action taking place.
text: The Past Tense Verbs in the past tense are used for actions that took place before now .
text: This tense expresses an ongoing action that will take place sometime in the future.