At this rate, we won`t arrive in New York until midnight. The President will make a statement on this matter later today. You will never meet the deadline after computers crash. This study makes an exceptional contribution to the understanding of the disease. No one wanted to make a clear decision on the project. Make is a verb that means “to create or produce, to cause, to provoke or to cause, to assemble, to assemble, to build, to manufacture, to build from components”. In this lesson, we will examine the forms of the main verbs and help verbs, followed by a quiz to test your comprehension. English verbs come in different forms. For example, the verb to sing can be: sing, sing, sing, sing, sing or sing. These are a total of 5 forms. Not much, given that some languages (like French) have more than 30 forms for a single verb.
English tenses can be quite complicated, but the forms we use to form the tenses are actually very simple! With the exception of the verb, the main English verbs have only 3, 4 or 5 forms. Be has 8 forms. Help verbs have even fewer forms, because most of them never change. At school, students often memorize the basic participle, past and past (sometimes called V1, V2, V3, meaning verb 1, verb 2, verb 3) for irregular verbs. You can spend many hours singing: singing, singing, singing; Go, walk, go; have, had, had; etc. You don`t learn them for regular verbs for a very simple reason – the simple past tense and past participle are always the same: they are formed by adding “-ed” to the base. Dawson failed to assemble the team for Saturday`s big game. You will learn the present participle and the 3. Singular person present simply does not do for regular or irregular verbs for another very simple reason – they never change. The present participle is always made the basis by adding “-ing”, and the 3rd person singular present is always the basis by adding “s” (although there are some variations in the spelling).
We use primary auxiliary verbs to change the tense or voice of the main verb and ask questions and negatives. There are only three primary help verbs: to do, to have, to be. These verbs can also function as main verbs. If we use them as help verbs, here are the forms we use: The main verbs (except the verb “to be”) have 3, 4 or 5 forms. The verb “to be” has 8 forms. In the following table, the # column indicates the actual number of shapes for the specified verb. You can make a lot of money playing on the stock market. We use these forms to form all tenses and other verbal structures in all moods, aspects, and voices. I want to make it clear that I have nothing to do with it.
I won`t apologize and you can`t make me! Diane would be a good teacher – she is so patient. Hearing the news only makes me angry these days. Dan barely made his 7-hour flight to Toronto. Don`t you think the novel would make a great movie? Note that “have,” “do,” and “be” also function as auxiliary verbs with exactly the same forms. We use modal auxiliary verbs to change the “setting” of the main verb. As you can see, modal verbs have only one form at a time. They never change. + It`s your dream, you can do it whatever you want. Note that in dictionaries, the keyword for a particular verb entry is always in the basic form. I want to make the place beautiful when they arrive. We use auxiliary verbs (auxiliary verbs) with main verbs.
The tables on this page show the forms of all help verbs. I have made an appointment for you with the doctor for tomorrow morning. We have made some progress, but there is still a long way to go. His search for a heart donor made headlines in April. It was the children`s choir that really did the performance. Matthew wrote down the car number and informed the police. We reached our goal of 10,000 sales this month. We made curtains from old materials that we found. People can eat healthier without significantly changing their diet. Jane made coffee while the guests finished their dessert.