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Eight Shortcuts for Understanding Tense and Aspect #384

Mastering the English tense-aspect system remains challenging for university EFL learners, namely given their writing needs in academic English and, eventually, for work-related purposes. We developed eight shortcuts that reflect the shared conceptualizations of the main tense-aspect grammar rules, based on ontological structures of time and happenings. These shortcuts have allowed students to efficiently understand the main workings of the entire system and facilitated their appropriate use of English tenses.