Aktionsart.28 This theory stated that verb structure is related not only or exclusively to temporal categories, but to the kind of action or the way that an event occurs. Aktionsart theory stated that a language has various means, including the use of verb tenses, verbal roots, and affixing of prepositions, to express the ways in which action occurs. This theory was adapted for New Testament study first by Friedrich Blass in his grammar, which, expanded by Albert Debrunner, has been translated