Unit quiz: Aspect and narrating past, present, and future

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Question 1

You meet сказать in a text and need its imperfective partner for a sentence about speaking in general. How do you proceed?Use говорить, a partner with a different root, and confirm partners in a dictionary rather than deriving them.Add the suffix -ыва- to сказать to build сказивать, since imperfectives are derived from perfectives by suffixation.

Question 2

A learner writes Я сделаю отчёт сейчас to mean I am getting the report done right now. What does the sentence actually mean, and what form is needed?The sentence is present in meaning, but it needs the auxiliary буду to make the aspect match.The perfective non-past form refers to the future, so the sentence means I will do the report; for the present, use the imperfective Я делаю отчёт.

Question 3

A learner writes Я делал это за два часа to mean it took me two hours to finish. What is the diagnosis and the repair?За plus a duration presupposes completion, so the verb should be perfective: Я сделал это за два часа.The sentence is correct as written, because за expresses duration in the same way as a bare accusative.

Question 4

A learner drafts Я прочитал, когда позвонила Анна. Why does the sentence fail as narration, and what is the repair?The call is too brief for the perfective, so both verbs should be imperfective.The reading is the ongoing background and needs the imperfective: Я читал, когда позвонила Анна.

Question 5

You must report that yesterday was spent writing the report and that tomorrow will finish it. Which forms fit, and why?Use the imperfective past with the duration phrase for yesterday, and a perfective non-past form for tomorrow's completed result.Use perfective past for yesterday's work and буду plus the perfective infinitive for tomorrow's result.

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