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There are three main types of meaning: Referential meaning Social Meaning Affective Meaning Referential Meaning This is the object, notion, or state of being described by a word, phrase or sentence e.g. Safaru Kaidha the meaning of this is the person who goes by that particular name. Hadigilla’s trousers This refers to the particular piece of clothing that belongs to that particular person...

In linguistics, grammatical aspect is a property of a verb that defines the nature of temporal flow in the described event or state. In most modern Indo-European languages, including English, the concept of aspect has become conflated with the concept of tense. It is somewhat difficult to explain the idea of aspect in English because it uses the same patterns to encode in tense both the time and...