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2. Latin tenses - Wikipedia

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   The six main indicative tenses in classical Latin are the following, using the verb dūcō as an example: [ 7] (a) Infectum tenses. Present: dūcō 'I lead, I am leading'. Future: dūcam 'I will lead, I will be leading'. Imperfect: dūcēbam 'I was leading, I used to lead'. (b) Perfectum tenses.

3. Present perfect - Wikipedia

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   The present perfect is a grammatical combination of the present tense and perfect aspect that is used to express a past event that has present consequences. [ 1] The term is used particularly in the context of English grammar to refer to forms like "I have finished". The forms are present because they use the present tense of the auxiliary verb ...

4. Simple present - Wikipedia

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   The simple present is the most commonly used verb form in English, accounting for more than half of verbs in spoken English. [ 1] It is called "simple" because its basic form consists of a single word (like write or writes ), in contrast with other present tense forms such as the present progressive ( is writing) and present perfect ( has ...

5. Present tense - Wikipedia

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   The present tense ( abbreviated PRES or PRS) is a grammatical tense whose principal function is to locate a situation or event in the present time. [1] The present tense is used for actions which are happening now. In order to explain and understand present tense, it is useful to imagine time as a line on which the past tense, the present and ...

6. Tense–aspect–mood - Wikipedia

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   Within the indicative mood, there is a present tense habitual aspect form (which can also be used with stative verbs), a past tense habitual aspect form (which also can be used with stative verbs), a near past tense form, a remote past tense form (which can also be used to convey past perspective on an immediately prior situation or event), a ...

7. Latin conjugation - Wikipedia

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   Latin grammar. In linguistics and grammar, conjugation has two basic meanings. [ 1] One meaning is the creation of derived forms of a verb from basic forms, or principal parts. The second meaning of the word conjugation is a group of verbs which all have the same pattern of inflections. Thus all those Latin verbs which in the present tense have ...

8. English verbs - Wikipedia

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   e. Verbs constitute one of the main parts of speech (word classes) in the English language. Like other types of words in the language, English verbs are not heavily inflected. Most combinations of tense, aspect, mood and voice are expressed periphrastically, using constructions with auxiliary verbs . Generally, the only inflected forms of an ...

9. Grammatical conjugation - Wikipedia

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   e. In linguistics, conjugation ( / ˌkɒndʒʊˈɡeɪʃən / [ 1][ 2]) is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (alteration of form according to rules of grammar ). For instance, the verb break can be conjugated to form the words break, breaks, broke, broken and breaking. While English has a relatively ...