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The purpose of this paper is to survey and analyze the English syntactic․semantic aspect and aspectual marker. Originally, aspect was understood as characteristics which verbs mean, however, aspect concepts have changed with the development of transformational generative grammar. In traditional grammar, aspect was not well known to people. However, I’d like to reveal the aspect into the surface through this paper. I divided aspect into syntactic aspect and semantic aspect. Of course, it is a view-point’s difference. Also, I insist that there are aspectual markers in English. They are “have+pp” and “be+-ing” in syntactic aspect and there are many kinds of aspectual markers in semantic aspect. From now on, we have to know aspect and tense differently. Although they have very similar points, I suggest that we have to classify them clearly. (Cheju National University)