It is the most important word in any sentence. Its form, tense, …

[Pages:31]Verb : FRAME 1

It is the most important word in any sentence. Its form, tense, number etc has to be understood both by the speaker and the listener.

Verb Forms: Verbs have five forms (except modal Auxiliaries/ defective verbs)

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First Form/ Present Tense

Second Form/ Past Tense

Third Fourth Fifth Form/ Form/ Form/ to Past Present infinitive / Participle Participle Bare

infinitive

see

saw

seen seeing to see/ see

write writes wrote written writing to write/ write

eat eats ate

eaten eating to eat/ eat

run

drawn

bringing

swim

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runs ran

run

running to run/ run

draw bring throw

drew brought brought threw thrown

drawing throwing

to draw/ draw

to bring/ bring

to throw/ throw

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To swim/ swim

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First Form Second Third Fourth

Form Form Form

paint

painted painted painting

pick

picked picked picking

borrow live

returned collecting

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Fifth Form to paint/ paint to pick/ pick

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return collect

lift

borrowed borrowed borrowing

returned

returning

collected collected

washed washing

lifts lifted

lived

lifted

lived

living

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to borrow/ borrow to return/ return

to collect/ collect to wash/ wash

to lift/ lift

to live/ live

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Present tense

be / is be / are be / am

have has do does

Past tense

was were was had had did did

Past participle

been been been had had done done

Present participle

being being being having having doing doing

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Infinitive

to be/ be to be / be to be/ be to have/ have to have/ have to do/ do to do/ do

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Primary Auxiliary `Be' also has five forms. be /is ? singular number agrees only with he, she and it ? Pronouns of third person.

be / are ? Plural number agrees with We (first person), you (second person) and they (third person)

be / am ? Singular number agrees only with pronoun I ? First person.

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Primary Auxilliary ? `Have' Have ? Plural number agrees with pronoun I ? here form is plural but its sense is singular. Eg. I have an examination.

`Have' agrees with Pronoun `we' First Person

`you' Second Person `They' Third Person

Has ? Singular number agrees only with he, she and it ? third person pronouns.

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