inflected forms, and is highly irregular. For details of the uses of particular verb tenses and other forms, see the article Uses of English verb forms. For... 37 KB (5,127 words) - 15:07, 3 May 2024 |
Appendix:English modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly... 82 KB (9,946 words) - 06:39, 2 May 2024 |
Modal verbs generally accompany the base (infinitive) form of another verb having semantic content. In English, the modal verbs commonly used are can... 13 KB (1,487 words) - 00:51, 26 April 2024 |
The English language has many irregular verbs, approaching 200 in normal use—and significantly more if prefixed forms are counted. In most cases, the... 38 KB (4,857 words) - 23:51, 8 April 2024 |
Simple past (redirect from Simple past (English)) 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"... 9 KB (1,226 words) - 04:55, 6 January 2024 |
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... 11 KB (1,278 words) - 16:19, 20 March 2024 |
Simple present (redirect from Simple present (English)) 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,... 8 KB (1,073 words) - 03:37, 20 September 2023 |
nonfinite verb, in contrast to a finite verb, is a derivative form of a verb that lacks inflection (conjugation) for number or person. In the English language... 13 KB (1,279 words) - 00:40, 3 April 2024 |
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... 96 KB (10,623 words) - 12:05, 26 April 2024 |
Gerund (redirect from Continuous verb forms) linguistics, a gerund (/ˈdʒɛrənd/ abbreviated ger) is any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages; most often, but not exclusively, it is... 44 KB (4,912 words) - 22:56, 21 April 2024 |
Japanese conjugation (redirect from Te form of Japanese verb) Japanese verbs have agglutinating properties: some of the conjugated forms are themselves conjugable verbs (or i-adjectives), which can result in several... 129 KB (6,447 words) - 08:47, 7 May 2024 |
Participle (redirect from Participial verb form) verb forms (continuous and perfect) and are widely used in adverbial clauses. In non-Indo-European languages, 'participle' has been applied to forms that... 56 KB (6,064 words) - 17:21, 30 March 2024 |
Progressive (section Verb forms) continuous), a verb form that expresses incomplete action Past progressive Perfect progressive aspects, see Uses of English verb forms and English verbs Progressive... 4 KB (462 words) - 18:18, 1 December 2023 |
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... 33 KB (4,457 words) - 20:07, 22 April 2024 |
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... 10 KB (1,147 words) - 02:14, 25 February 2024 |
Copula (linguistics) (redirect from English verb to be) 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... 69 KB (7,628 words) - 14:41, 11 April 2024 |
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... 11 KB (1,432 words) - 19:27, 2 April 2024 |
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... 20 KB (2,582 words) - 11:31, 2 April 2024 |
as a predicate. In English (and in most European languages), verb forms that can be used attributively are typically non-finite forms — participles and... 8 KB (1,119 words) - 04:49, 4 April 2024 |
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... 30 KB (3,127 words) - 03:31, 7 May 2024 |
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... 60 KB (1,077 words) - 00:08, 21 January 2024 |
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... 8 KB (1,073 words) - 17:52, 2 April 2024 |
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... 125 KB (12,200 words) - 18:20, 7 April 2024 |
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... 87 KB (11,191 words) - 07:03, 11 April 2024 |
Present continuous (redirect from Present continuous (English)) 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... 5 KB (468 words) - 15:42, 28 January 2024 |
of speech. The list labeled "Others" includes pronouns, possessives, articles, modal verbs, adverbs, and conjunctions. Languages portal Basic English... 16 KB (858 words) - 17:56, 20 March 2024 |