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...

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...

Appendix:English modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly...

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...

Modal verbs generally accompany the base (infinitive) form of another verb having semantic content. In English, the modal verbs commonly used are can...

The English language has many irregular verbs, approaching 200 in normal use – and significantly more if prefixed forms are counted. In most cases, the...

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"...

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...

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,...

linguistics, a gerund (/ˈdʒɛrənd, -ʌnd/ abbreviated ger) is any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages; most often, but not exclusively, it is...

language, a non-finite verb cannot perform action as the main verb of an independent clause. In English, non-finite verb forms include infinitives, participles...

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...

continuous), a verb form that expresses incomplete action Past progressive Perfect progressive aspects, see Uses of English verb forms and English verbs Progressive...

verb forms (continuous and perfect) and are widely used in adverbial clauses. In non-Indo-European languages, 'participle' has been applied to forms that...

Japanese verbs have agglutinating properties: some of the conjugated forms are themselves conjugable verbs (or i-adjectives), which can result in several...

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...

passive in their perfect forms, they are semantically active in all forms. Conversely, Latin also has some verbs that are active in form but passive in meaning...

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...

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...

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...

the traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e...

strong; the majority are weak verbs, which form the past tense by means of a dental suffix. In modern English, strong verbs include sing (present I sing...

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...

perfect forms. For details of how all of these forms are made, see Latin conjugation. The English perfect is made with a form of the auxiliary verb have...

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...

mark the progressive aspect (see Uses of English verb forms § Progressive); in these cases the simple past tense is used instead: "He was hungry"; "We knew...

strictly formal, used when addressing people respectfully or addressing people of some social distance. Like usted, it uses third-person verb forms, for the same...

as a predicate. In English (and in most European languages), verb forms that can be used attributively are typically non-finite forms — participles and...

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...

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...