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  2. English verbs - Wikipedia

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    For example, the verb write has the principal parts write (base form), wrote (past), and written (past participle); the remaining inflected forms (writes, writing) are derived regularly from the base form. Some irregular verbs have identical past tense and past participle forms (as the regular verbs do), as with send–sent–sent.

  3. Auxiliary verb - Wikipedia

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    An example is the verb have in the sentence I have finished my lunch. Here, the auxiliary have helps to express the perfect aspect along with the participle, finished. Some sentences contain a chain of two or more auxiliary verbs. Auxiliary verbs are also called helping verbs, helper verbs, or (verbal) auxiliaries. Research has been conducted ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Grammatical conjugation - Wikipedia

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    For example, Latin is said to have four conjugations of verbs. This means that any regular Latin verb can be conjugated in any person, number, tense, mood, and voice by knowing which of the four conjugation groups it belongs to, and its principal parts.

  6. Grammatical aspect - Wikipedia

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    Perfective verbs cannot generally be used with the meaning of a present tense – their present-tense forms in fact have future reference. An example of such a pair of verbs, from Polish, is given below: Infinitive (and dictionary form): pisać ("to write", imperfective); napisać ("to write", perfective)

  7. Have - Wikipedia

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    Have or having may refer to: the concept of ownership; any concept of possession; the English verb "to have" is used: to express possession linguistically, in a broad sense; as an auxiliary verb; in constructions such as have something done; Having, a 2006 album by the band Trespassers William; Having (SQL), a clause in the SQL programming-language

  8. Subject–auxiliary inversion - Wikipedia

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    Here the subject is Sam, and the verb has is an auxiliary. In the question, these two elements change places (invert). If the sentence does not have an auxiliary verb, this type of simple inversion is not possible. Instead, an auxiliary must be introduced into the sentence in order to allow inversion: [3] a. Sam enjoys the paper.

  9. English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    For example, before the Great Vowel Shift, the verb keep (then pronounced /keːp/, slightly like "cap", or "cape" without the / j / glide) belonged to a group of verbs whose vowel was shortened in the past tense; this pattern is preserved in the modern past tense kept (similarly crept, wept, leapt, left).