Grammarians distinguish the following grammatical categories: voice, order, aspect, mood, posteriority, person, number.
English theoretical grammars seem to recognize only two voices in English: the active and the passive.
H.Poutsma besides the two voices mentioned above finds one more voice – reflexive.
He gives the following examples: He got to bed, covered himself up warm and fell asleep.
A.I. Smirnitsky, L. Barkhudarov, L. Steling, Khaimovich and Rogovskaya's according to their opinion there are two active and passive voices. But some others maintain that there are three voices in English.
A.I. Smirnitsky, L. Barkhudarov, L. Steling, Khaimovich and Rogovskaya's according to their opinion there are two active and passive voices. But some others maintain that there are three voices in English.
B.A. Ilyish besides the three voices mentioned distinguishes two more: the reciprocal voice expressed with the help of each-other, one another and the neuter (“middle”) voice in such sentences as: The door opened.
H. Sweet "By the moods of a verb we understand grammatical forms expressing different relations between subject and predicate". 1. There are two moods in English which oppose to each other: Thought-form, fact mood.
H. Sweet "By the moods of a verb we understand grammatical forms expressing different relations between subject and predicate". 1. There are two moods in English which oppose to each other: Thought-form, fact mood.
G.O. Curme: “Moods are the changes in the form of the verb to show the various ways in which the action or state is thought of by the speaker”.
Mood is the grammatical category of the verb reflecting the relation of the action expressed by the verb to reality from the speaker’s point of view. The three moods: indicative, imperative and subjunctive are found in almost all the grammars of Russian grammarians. We say «almost» because Barkhudarov and Steling consider only the first and third.
Mood is the grammatical category of the verb reflecting the relation of the action expressed by the verb to reality from the speaker’s point of view. The three moods: indicative, imperative and subjunctive are found in almost all the grammars of Russian grammarians. We say «almost» because Barkhudarov and Steling consider only the first and third.
