The compound verbal aspect predicate.

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§17. The compound verbal aspect predicate.

The compound verbal aspect predicate expresses the beginning' repetition, duration, or cessation of the action expressed by the non finite form of the verb. It consists of such verbs as to begin, to start, to commence _y to fall, to set about, to go on, to keep on, to proceed, to con­tinue, to stop, to give up, to finish, to cease, to come and an infinitive or _a gerund.

Here also belong would and used + Infinitive, which denote a re­peated action in the past.

Elaine, this ill-advised behaviour of yoursis beginning to have results. (Erskine)

That viewhad come to give him a feeling of ease and happi­ness. (Lindsay)

His bonesceased to ache. (Lindsay) Shehad stopped asking Yates about the time. (Heym) Meanwhile armored infantrycontinued to feel its way in a north­erly direction. (Heym)

Ikept glancing at her through the rest of the play. (Braine)

 Iused to write poetry myself when I was his age. (Herbert)

 I lived with a man once whoused to make me mad that way. He would loll on the sofa and watch me doing things by the hour. (Jerome)

§18. Mixed types of predicate.

Besides the compound nominal predicate, the compound verbal modal predicate and the compound verbal aspect predicate, there is a type of predicate in which we have elements of two types of predicates. Such predicates contain three components.

Thus we have:

1. he compound modal nominal predicate.

The nephewwas to be the means of introduction. (Du Maurier)

He greatlylonged to be the next heir himself. (De la Roche)

 Don't think Imean to be unkind. (Du Maurier)

2. The compound aspect nominal predicate.

The grey househad ceased to be a house for family life. (Buck)

It was like coming ashore after a channel crossing. Ibegan to feel rather hungry. (Du Maurier)

I was glad that the doctor had been Chinese, and not American. Icontinued to be glad for that. (Buck)

3. The compound modal aspect predicate.

And all the while he felt the presence of Pat andhad to keep on resisting the impulse to turn round. (Lindsay)

Something happened nearly a year ago that altered my whole life. Ihad to begin living all over again. (Du Maurier)

Heought to stop doing nothing andcriticizing everybody(Lindsay)

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