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  2. 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.

  3. List of English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    English irregular verbs are now a closed group, which means that newly formed verbs are always regular and do not adopt any of the irregular patterns. This list only contains verb forms which are listed in the major dictionaries as being standard usage in modern English. There are also many thousands of archaic, non-standard and dialect variants.

  4. List of English auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English auxiliary verbs, i.e. helping verbs, which include Modal verbs and Semi-modal verbs. See also auxiliary verbs, light verbs, ...

  5. Category:English verbs - Wikipedia

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    English verbs; G. Go (verb) N. Northern Subject Rule; P. English phrasal verbs; U. Uses of English verb forms This page was last edited on 25 September 2021, at 23 ...

  6. English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    Irregular verbs in Modern English include many of the most common verbs: the dozen most frequently used English verbs are all irregular. New verbs (including loans from other languages, and nouns employed as verbs) usually follow the regular inflection, unless they are compound formations from an existing irregular verb (such as housesit , from ...

  7. English prefix - Wikipedia

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    The first prefix un-"not" is attached to adjective and participle bases while the second prefix un-"reverse action" is attached to either verb or noun bases. Thus, English can have two words that are pronounced and spelled the same and have the same lexical category but have different meanings, different prefixes, a different internal ...

  8. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    A list of 100 words that occur most frequently in written English is given below, based on an analysis of the Oxford English Corpus (a collection of texts in the English language, comprising over 2 billion words). [1]

  9. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    Regular verbs have identical past tense and past participle forms in -ed, but there are 100 or so irregular English verbs with different forms (see list). The verbs have, do and say also have irregular third-person present tense forms (has, does /dʌz/, says /sɛz/).