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A Sample of Self-DefinersMood, Aspect, & Voice

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Here is a fifteenth hand-curated selection from “Appendix A: A Self-Defining Linguistic Glossary”, a.k.a. “The only truly reliable cram sheet for your Linguistics 101 final”, from The Speculative Grammarian Essential Guide to Linguistics.

  • He made me use the causative voice.
  • I’m done using the completive aspect.
  • This would be the conditional mood.
  • He used the delimitative aspect for a while.
  • I want to use the desiderative mood.
  • I guess I’m using the dubitative mood.
  • Gnomic aspect uses the simple present in English.
  • I am always saying things in the habitual aspect.
  • I could use the hypothetical mood if...
  • Use the imperative mood!
  • The imperfective aspect is not finished occurring.
  • This is just starting to look like an inchoative aspect.
  • She keeps using the iterative aspect over and over.
  • You shall use the jussive!
  • Wow! Look! I just found a mirative!
  • You must use the obligative mood.
  • May you use the optative mood.
  • The passive voice is being used now.
  • The perfective aspect is finished.
  • Even if I used the presumptive mood...
  • The progressive aspect is just in the middle of appearing now.
  • Don’t use the prohibitive mood!
  • If this were the subjunctive mood...

More to come...



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