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"MUST" btw is the best example of a verb that only has finite forms.
Present tense: I must, you must, he must, we must, you must, they must.
Because of the fact that 'must' doesn't have a special form for the 3rd person singular (he must
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Yes, whl you're right!
>>"Learning may be easy, if you are learning from a good teacher, but teaching is work."
Verbs in this sentence are:
may, be;
are, learning;
is
may & be; are & learning belong together - they build the
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In fact, there are 3 categories of verbs:
1) Weak Verbs
2) Strong Verbs
3) Irregular Verbs
1) An English weak verb forms its past tense and past participle forms simply by adding the suffix "-(e)d" to the stem:
examples:
to live -
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Hi Roy,
thanks for joining us!
Of course, this sentences have different meanings - but nevertheless the 2nd one is inversed. (Subject and verb change positions).
Actually it's a poor example to show what I was actually referring to.
Just
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>>Sorry for intruding in this discussion, but your question is similar to one I was addressing a few days ago. If I may proceed... To say 'Had you a good night?' is correct because English questions must begin with an auxiliary verb - 'had,' like
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Hi John,
will and can are both Modal helping verbs, whose are always followed by an infinitive.
A modal helping verb helps to express the modus of a (full) verb:
"can forget" is NOT an abbrevation of 'be able to forget' , but "be able to"
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Nope, "let" is a weird verb because it can take over or imply a kind of modal meaning in special cases, just a bit like the common usual Modal helping verbs which are always followed by an infinitive.
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Right, you only have to "inflect" one verb in a simple tense (past or present). When there is also a helping verb in the sentence, then this one is inflected while the main verb remains unchanged.
He has money. -> "has" is the only verb, so it
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The subject is "Beads or balls".
The predicate is "may be moved" and consists of 3 verbs:
The modal helping verb "may" which shows the modus (allowance) of the full verb "move" that is here in its passive voice of the infinitive. .
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Hello ssittoesl!
>>eg. go went gone. In Chinese, you supplement the word "GO" with additional word if you want to say someone "has gone" etc.. The integrity of the word "GO" is preserved.
Hehe, interesting you just picked out a very
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