ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter (see 4.2) it was pointed out that the Russian verb was characterised by the presence of two aspects – imperfective and perfective – and that every Russian verb (with a handful of exceptions) belongs to one or other of these aspects. In this chapter it is intended to examine in some detail the use of the two aspects, although it may be noted that whole books have been written on this topic, and it will therefore not be possible here to discuss every circumstance in which a decision on aspectual usage has to be made.
