"verb" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For details of these rules, see English verbs.
- For details of their meanings and usage, see English modal verbs.
- A regular English verb has only one principal part, from which all the forms of the verb can be derived.
- Most English verbs have six inflected forms (see the table), but be has eight different forms.
- Dowty gives some tests to decide whether an English verb is stative.
- In regular English verbs, the past tense and past participle have the same form.
- For full details of past tense formation, see English verbs.
- For other uses of constructions with would and should, see English modal verbs.
- For other meanings of would have and should have, see English modal verbs.
- Most English present verbs are regular and have only one change in ending (-s for third person singular).
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