By Inflections

A "tense" is a category of the verb or verbal inflections, such as present, past, and future, that expresses the temporal relations between what is reported in a sentence and the time of its utterance. You say you understand what "past tense" is but you wonder what "past simple" means. It's a...

Hi, this is just a cut & paste job from various internet resources: 1 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 2 The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar 3 Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 4 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (7 parts) 5 Pocket Fowler's Modern...

Here is what the dictionary has to say: Main Entry: gram·mar Pronunciation: 'gra-m&r Function: noun Etymology: Middle English gramere, from Middle French gramaire, modification of Latin grammatica, from Greek grammatikE, from feminine of grammatikos of letters, from grammat-, gramma -- more at...

Your question is unclear. First, it is important to note that participles are a class of words that is contained within verbs; a participle is one of the many inflections of a verb. You can use the present participle of the verb "frown" ("to frown") in the sentence "I am frowning." You can use...

Introduction taken from http://www.ead.ufms.br/letras/Literature/01-Origins_Of_English.pdf Origins of English (up to 1066) Historical Background Before the time of the Roman colonization in A.D. 43, Britain was populated by Celts and Britons, relatively primitive people without organized...