for it should be quarried two years in advance' For gerundive infinitive tenses see #Gerundive infinitives below. The present subjunctive can express a...
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on grammatical tense. In indicative clauses, Latin has three primary tenses and three series of secondary tenses. The primary tenses are the future agam...
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patterns. The main tenses found in many languages include the past, present, and future. Some languages have only two distinct tenses, such as past and...
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The main Latin tenses can be divided into two groups: the present system (also known as infectum tenses), consisting of the present, future, and imperfect;...
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Tense–aspect–mood (commonly abbreviated tam in linguistics) or tense–modality–aspect (abbreviated as tma) is an important group of grammatical categories...
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pronounced with a long i, in the same way as in the perfect subjunctive. Virgil has a short i for both tenses; Horace uses both forms for both tenses; Ovid...
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Preterite (redirect from Preterite tense)
derives from the Latin praeteritum (the perfective participle of praetereo), meaning "passed by" or "past." In Latin, the perfect tense most commonly functions...
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distances ahead, means that the speaker may refer to future events with the modality either of probability (what the speaker expects to happen) or intent...
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verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality, properties such as possibility and obligation. They can most easily be...
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English verbs (category Articles with short description)
described as representing certain verb tenses or aspects (in English language teaching they are often simply called tenses). For the usage of these forms, see...
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Verb (category Articles with short description)
verb may also agree with the person, gender or number of some of its arguments, such as its subject, or object. In English, three tenses exist: present, to...
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Grammatical mood (category Linguistic modality)
Greek From SIL International: Deontic modality Volitive modality: imprecative mood, optative mood Directive modality: deliberative mood, imperative mood...
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hodiernal tense (abbreviated HOD) is a grammatical tense for the current day. (Hodie or hodierno die is Latin for 'today'.) Hodiernal tenses refer to events...
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Pluperfect (redirect from Plusquamperfect tense)
past perfect in English, characterizes certain verb forms and grammatical tenses involving an action from an antecedent point in time. Examples in English...
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English auxiliary verbs (category English modal and auxiliary verbs)
Moods and Tenses, without one of the following principal Verbs have and be. The first serves to conjugate the rest, by supplying the compound tenses of all...
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Conditional mood (redirect from Conditional tense)
construction in Dutch involves the past tense of the verb zullen, the auxiliary of the future tenses, cognate with English 'shall'. Ik zou zingen 'I would...
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regions. Like other Bantu languages it has a wide range of tenses. In terms of time, Chichewa tenses can be divided into present, recent past, remote past...
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necessary. Other systems of modal logic have been formulated, in part because S5 does not describe every kind of modality of interest. Sequent calculi...
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Italian grammar (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
the other tenses; this behaviour is similarly featured in the verbs ending in -trarre, -porre and -durre, derived respectively from the Latin trahere[citation...
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Uses of English verb forms (redirect from English verb tenses)
particular tense–aspect–mood combinations such as "present progressive" and "conditional perfect" are often referred to simply as "tenses". Verb tenses are inflectional...
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Infinitive (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
The Portuguese personal infinitive has no proper tenses, only aspects (imperfect and perfect), but tenses can be expressed using periphrastic structures...
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Germanic verbs (redirect from Modal preterite)
"preterite" tense, either -t- or -d-. In Proto-Germanic, such verbs had no ablaut—that is, all forms of all tenses were formed from the same stem, with no vowel...
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Grammatical aspect (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
conflated with the marking of tense and mood (see tense–aspect–mood). Aspectual distinctions may be restricted to certain tenses: in Latin and the Romance...
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Perfect (grammar) (redirect from Perfect tense)
grammatical tense (such as time reference) and grammatical aspect. The Greek perfect tense is contrasted with the aorist and the imperfect tenses and specifically...
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ǂKxʼaoǁʼae (category Articles with short description)
Kolloquium, Berlin. Pratchett, Lee (2014) "Towards an analysis of tense, aspect and modality in ǂKxʼaoǁʼae." Paper presented at Linguistisches Kolloquium,...
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Subjunctive mood in Spanish (category Articles with short description)
subjunctive simple tenses: present, imperfect, and future, but only the former two are still in active use. At least three subjunctive compound tenses exist: present...
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recent past from remote past with separate tenses. There may be more than two distinctions. In some languages, certain past tenses can carry an implication...
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Subjunctive mood (redirect from Subjunctive in Latin)
has the same subjunctive tenses as German (described above), though they are rare in contemporary speech. The same two tenses as in German are sometimes...
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Romance verbs (category Articles with short description)
(appo) in Logudorese Sardinian in present tenses. In Logudorese Sardinian, two -b-es lost in imperfect tenses. In French, the past participle eu including...
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Shall and will (redirect from Will (modal verb))
English modal verbs. They have various uses, including the expression of propositions about the future, in what is usually referred to as the future tense of...
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