English Verbs
Simple Past Tense of Regular English VerbsThe simple past tense describes completed actions, describes past habits and routines, states past facts and truths, and expresses past thoughts...
May 20, 2013- The Simple Present of English Verbs
Conjugated verbs in English express a combination of verb tense, verb aspect, verb voice, and verb mood. Tense, which imperfectly corresponds...
May 16, 2013 - Third Person Singular Simple Present Verbs
The simple present tense in English expresses habits and routines, general facts and truths, and thoughts and feelings. In all but...
May 15, 2013 - Past Participles of Irregular English Verbs
Past participles, or -en participles, are a nonfinite verb form in English that perform verbal and adjectival functions. The following sections...
May 14, 2013 - Past Participles of Regular English Verbs
Past participles, or -en participles, are a nonfinite verb form in English that perform verbal and adjectival functions. The following sections...
May 12, 2013 - Present Participles of English Verbs
Present participles, or -ing participles, are a nonfinite verb form in English that perform verbal, adjectival, and nominal functions. The following...
May 10, 2013 - Grammatical Mood in English
Grammatical mood is defined as a set of distinctive verb forms that express modality. Modality is the grammaticalized expression of the...
April 8, 2013 - Grammatical Voice in English
Grammatical voice is loosely defined as the grammaticalized expression of relationships between predicate and nominal functions such as subject and object....
April 7, 2013 - Tense and Aspect of English Verbs
All finite, or conjugated, verbs in English express grammatical tense and grammatical aspect. Tense is the grammaticalized expression of the location...
April 6, 2013 - Grammatical Aspect in English
Grammatical aspect can be defined as the grammaticalized expression of the temporal structure of an action or state. Temporal structure roughly...
April 5, 2013 - Grammatical Tense in English
Grammatical tense can be defined as the grammaticalized expression of the location in time of an action or state. Verb tense...
April 4, 2013 - Grammatical Form of English Verb Clauses
Consisting of a subject and a predicate, clauses are the smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition. Verb clauses...
April 2, 2013 - Grammatical Functions of Verbs in Predicate Verb Phrases
A predicate is defined as a word or phrase that expresses the action performed by the grammatical subject or the state...
March 14, 2013 - Phrasal Verbs: The Elephant Is a Whole, Not Its Parts
Although grammatical relationships among forms of lexemes are expressed through either inflection or periphrasis, English is a highly periphrastic language. According...
January 23, 2012 - To Boldly Go Where Most English Speakers Have Gone Before: The Split Infinitive
To split the infinitive or to not split the infinitive, that is the question. Prescriptive grammars forbid the splitting of infinitives....
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