Moods, tenses, and aspects

Question

I recently participated in a question thread that seems to have ended in massive confusion for everyone involved. The question here is the meanings of these trms, and their relationship to one another.

My concept: a tense is a time frame, past, present and future.

A mood is a modality, a means of expressing attitude or intent with the sentence involved. Imperative, indicative, and subjunctive. Some tenses and moods can be used in conjunction, while others may not.

Aspect: an attribute of verb use, as either perfective, imperfective, and prospective. This remains pretty confusing to me.

I am hoping a real grammar type will hop in on this and clear the water. As a start, there is an old thread on the subject that could be a start. old thread

Answer 1

This is absolutely correct.

and yes moods and tenses are "intrinsically different, yet related". - gsdfsggs, Jan 28, 2013