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| future tense The future tense shows actions or states of being that will occur in the future. Please note, however, that we can show futurity in other ways as well. The simple present tense can show futurity: The… |
| Compound Adjectives - A Long List Here, for your reference, is a long list of the most frequently encountered types of compound adjectives and the rules on hyphenation. When in doubt, always check the dictionary. Compound … |
| People Is” vs “People Are” Let’s begin with the most simplistic statement: “People are…” is correct. “People is…” is not correct. Well, wait a minute! • Does that mean that the word “people” is a singular noun or a … |
| past participle The past participle shows up in verb conjugation in two ways: (1) to form the perfect tenses with the auxiliary verb have (I have decided to retire) and (2) to form the passive voice with the auxilia… |
| Infinitives Showing Tense and Voice Elsewhere I’ve stated that the conjugated verb shows four things: tense, person, number, and mood. I’ve also stated that verbal phrases like the infinitive phrase do not show tense. Well, that’s true… |
| Leaped vs. Leapt Leaped vs. Leapt: Navigating Verb Forms in English When it comes to expressing past actions involving jumping or moving swiftly, the terms "leaped" and "leapt" are both acceptable, but their usage ma… |
| Auxiliary verbs BE ‘To be’ means to exist. ‘Be’ can be used in many ways. · To form continuous tenses – present, past, future – be takes the form of am, is, are, was, were, will be – o … |
| indicative mood First, understand this: The word mood has nothing to do with frame of mind, as in happy or sad. It actually refers to mode, which is the attribute of a verb suggesting the speaker's attitude toward t… |
| Chapter 10 - “Lead” vs. “Led” “Yesterday, they lead us astray.” Here’s a quickie. Read on to learn that led is the correct word. Lead vs. Led: An Overview<… |
| Auxiliary Verb Verbs are one of the first parts of speech a child learns about in high school. They are the main building blocks of a sentence and English grammar is incomplete about them. We all know that a verb i… |
| participle Every main verb has two kinds of participles: a past participle and a present participle. The past participle shows up in verb conjugation in two ways: (1) to form the perfect ten… |
| auxiliary verb When you conjugate a one-word verb, you can form the present tense (he decides) and the past tense (he decided) with just one verb word. But when you go beyond the present and past tenses, you need a… |
| What Nouns Do What do nouns do in our language? It’s crucial that you know, for you cannot begin to engage in any kind of grammatical analysis without knowing the roles of all eight parts of speech. The main ro… |
| Lighted vs. Lit Sometimes, it might be difficult to identify in which cases we should use a word and which cases require the use of another, yet very similar one. "Lighted" and "Lit" are two words in this situation,… |
| principal parts Main verbs have four principal parts: (1) infinitive (to decide), (2) past tense (decided), (3) past participle (decided), and (4) present participle (deciding). A regular verb forms its past tense a… |
| Learned vs. Learnt What is the past tense of learn? Consider the following sentence:I learnt French last year.Are you getting thoughts in your mind that say that this sentence has got something wrong in it? Maybe it’s … |
| passed, past The word pass has more than two dozen distinct meanings as a verb, another dozen as a noun, and perhaps that many again as part of a phrasal verb or idiom. For our purpose here, we w… |
| Infinitive Verb Till now I have written and posted about various forms that a verb can take in sentences of English language. Today I came across another form or type of verb that exist in English language and so I … |
| Infinitive - The "to" Verb Academic tomes might go on for pages defining the meaning of the infinitive form of a verb. I, on the other hand, have developed a definition requiring only a single sentence: The infiniti… |
| input Many people use this trendy word to mean “participation in or contribution to an endeavor or project.” In short, they want to provide input. Careful writers, however, avoid this jarg… |
| peddle, petal, pedal Peddle means “to sell.” Peddled is the past tense and past participle of that verb. Petals are the colorful part of a flower. A pedal … |
| Present Participle - The -ing Verb Every verb in the English language has a present participle, and you form it the same way for every verb: Just add ‑ing. Sometimes you’ll have to drop an ending silent ‑e, as in write and writing. So… |
| climbed - correct spelling climbed verb (past tense and past participle of the verb climb) Example: This song has climbed to the top of the charts. past participle Example: The prison… |
| laid - correct spelling laid - verb (past tense and past participle of the verb lay) Note: Grammar.com's section on Problem Words discusses the differences between lie and lay. Click here for that… |
| pleaded, pled The preferred past tense and past participle of the verb to plead is pleaded, not pled. Thus, here’s the correct past tense: He pleaded |
