Re: Verb tenses question

Thanks for the responses.. Over the course of the day I got more terms than
I know what to do with!

I received (among others):  inceptive, inchoative, prospective, ingressive,
and imminent.

I am sticking with 'inceptive' as it's the only one my dictionary lists as
having that sense in grammar (well, except for 'inchoative', which gets 'see
inceptive').

I hadn't thought of the difference between 'about to' and 'going to', but
for my purposes I don't think it will be too important.  (I had meant to
show different aspects of the, er, aspect by phrasing it in different ways,
in hopes of getting a different answer than the one *every* nonlinguist I
asked gave, that being 'future perfect')

Also on 'aspect' vs 'tense', I know better now, thanks ;)


     *Muke, who should probably have to study more grammar if he keeps this
up.