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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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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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"...
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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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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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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,...
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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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