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    Modern standard English has various verb forms, including: Finite verb forms such as go, goes and went Nonfinite forms such as (to) go, going and gone...
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    For details of the uses of particular verb tenses and other forms, see the article Uses of English verb forms. A regular English verb has only one principal...
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    Appendix:English modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly...
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    The use of verb tenses, moods and aspects in the parts of such sentences follows general principles, as described in Uses of English verb forms. Occasionally...
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  • Modal verbs generally accompany the base (infinitive) form of another verb having semantic content. In English, the modal verbs commonly used are can...
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    The English language has many irregular verbs, approaching 200 in normal use—and significantly more if prefixed forms are counted. In most cases, the...
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    present simple or present indefinite is one of the verb forms associated with the present tense in modern English. It is commonly referred to as a tense,...
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  • some other uses. Regular English verbs form the simple past in -ed; however, there are a few hundred irregular verbs with different forms. The term "simple"...
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  • Gerund (redirect from Continuous verb forms)
    linguistics, a gerund (/ˈdʒɛrənd, -ʌnd/ abbreviated ger) is any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages; most often, but not exclusively, it is...
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  • free dictionary. The verb go is an irregular verb in the English language (see English irregular verbs). It has a wide range of uses; its basic meaning...
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  • continuous), a verb form that expresses incomplete action Past progressive Perfect progressive aspects, see Uses of English verb forms and English verbs Progressive...
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    English auxiliary verbs are a small set of English verbs, which include the English modal auxiliary verbs and a few others.: 19 : 11–12  Although the...
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  • verb forms (continuous and perfect) and are widely used in adverbial clauses. In non-Indo-European languages, 'participle' has been applied to forms that...
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  • nonfinite verb, in contrast to a finite verb, is a form of a verb that lacks inflection (conjugation) for number or person. In the English language, a...
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  • needed, since the main verb of saying (said) is in the past tense. Further examples can be found at Uses of English verb forms § Indirect speech. In some...
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    Japanese verbs have agglutinating properties: some of the conjugated forms are themselves conjugable verbs (or i-adjectives), which can result in several...
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  • eight forms be, is, am, are, was, were, been, and being in English. The number of arguments that a verb takes is called its valency or valence. Verbs can...
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  • copular verb may also have other uses supplementary to or distinct from its uses as a copula. Some co-occurrences are common. The English verb to be is...
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  • imperfect, is a verb form used in modern English that combines the present tense with the continuous aspect. It is formed by the present tense form of be and the...
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    the traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e...
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  • Infinitive (redirect from Verb infinitive)
    INF) is a linguistics term for certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs. As with many linguistic concepts, there...
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  • as a predicate. In English (and in most European languages), verb forms that can be used attributively are typically non-finite forms — participles and...
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  • Greek verb ἀναβαίνω (anabainō) 'I go up' uses active forms in the imperfect active and aorist active, but in the future active it shows the middle form ἀναβήσομαι...
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  • of verbs or a "normal" or regular verb in a particular language can be conjugated for[citation needed]. That is to say, a defective verb lacks forms that...
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  • This is a list of irregular verbs in the English language. For each verb listed, the citation form (the bare infinitive) is given first, with a link to...
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  • of verbs can appear in finite or non-finite form (and sometimes these forms may be identical): for example, the English verb go has the finite forms go...
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  • some linguistics theories, a stative verb is a verb that describes a state of being, in contrast to a dynamic verb, which describes an action. The difference...
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  • verb is a verb that marks its past tense by means of changes to the stem vowel. The majority of the remaining verbs form the past tense by means of a...
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  • example, the English verb to perjure is reflexive, since one can only perjure oneself. In a wider sense, the term refers to any verb form whose grammatical...
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  • For the uses of these various verb forms, see English verbs and English clause syntax. The basic form of the verb (be, write, play) is used as the infinitive...
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