Texto 5

“In discussing tense, we concentrated on location of a situation. In order to talk about ASPECT, we have to look inside the situation. In terms of its internal dimensions, a situation may be represented as fixed or changing, it may be treated as lasting for only a moment or having duration, and it can be viewed as completed or as ongoing. These are aspectual distinctions.

Because aspect has to do with the kind of situation perceived or experienced, it can be expressed both lexically and grammatically.”

(YULE, 2000;62)

According to YULE (2000), when we are discussing tense, we need to look at the location of a given situation. However, when the issue is aspect, we need to look inside the situation itself. Taking into consideration both the lexical and grammatical aspects of the verb, the sentence that describes that at this time I look back at myself in an activity viewed internally as in progress is: