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  2. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

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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; Combinations of such forms with auxiliary verbs, such as was going and would have gone; They can be used to express tense (time reference), aspect, mood, modality and voice, in various ...

  3. English verbs - Wikipedia

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    The base form or plain form of an English verb is not marked by any inflectional ending.. Certain derivational suffixes are frequently used to form verbs, such as -en (sharpen), -ate (formulate), -fy (electrify), and -ise/ize (realise/realize), but verbs with those suffixes are nonetheless considered to be base-form verbs.

  4. Do-support - Wikipedia

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    Such forms are used very frequently in informal English. Do-support is required for negated imperatives even when the verb is the copula be: Do not do that. Don't be silly. However, there is no do-support with non-finite verb forms, as they are negated by a preceding not: It would be a crime not to help him (the infinitive to help is negated)

  5. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    Most verbs have three or four inflected forms in addition to the base form: a third-person singular present tense form in -(e)s (writes, botches), a present participle and gerund form in -ing (writing), a past tense (wrote), and – though often identical to the past tense form – a past participle (written).

  6. Grammatical aspect - Wikipedia

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    Periphrastic Hindi verb forms consist of two elements. The first of these two elements is the aspect marker and the second element (the copula) is the common tense/mood marker. In literary Arabic (الْفُصْحَى al-fuṣḥā) the verb has two aspect-tenses: perfective (past), and imperfective (non-past). There is some disagreement among ...

  7. Simple past - Wikipedia

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    Regular verbs form the simple past end-ed; however there are a few hundred irregular verbs with different forms. [2] The spelling rules for forming the past simple of regular verbs are as follows: verbs ending in -e add only –d to the end (e.g. live – lived, not *liveed), verbs ending in -y change to -ied (e.g. study – studied) and verbs ending in a group of a consonant + a vowel + a ...

  8. Who (pronoun) - Wikipedia

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    The same forms (though not usually the emphatic ones) are used to make indirect questions: "We don't know who did that." "I wonder who(m) she met this morning." The corresponding form when referring to non-humans is "what" (which has the emphatic form "whatever", and no possessive form).

  9. English auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The first English grammar, Bref Grammar for English by William Bullokar, published in 1586, does not use the term "auxiliary" but says: All other verbs are called verbs-neuters-un-perfect because they require the infinitive mood of another verb to express their signification of meaning perfectly: and be these, may, can, might or mought, could, would, should, must, ought, and sometimes, will ...