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The list isn't meant to be exhaustive or carefully arranged. Any additions, corrections or further examples would be welcomed. 1 main verbs; lexical verbs (all verbs which are not auxiliaries or modals) 2 action verbs; event verbs; dynamic verbs (a verb which can be used in...

Not much. I hear it as a simple variation to break the monotony. When two good friends meet, "Hi" seems to work fine, because they have plenty to talk about. When two casual acquaintances meet, they're often searching for something clever to say, to avoid seeming stupid. ...

Anonymous wrote: What is different between "some" and "a few" when referring to countable nouns? Nothing. Both mean "a small number of", although only "few" = "small" by definition. (some can be used for both countable & uncountable - I guess you knew that!)e.g. I have stopped...

Welcome to EF, ZhukThere is no unanimous "correct" reply to your last question. As a rule, English is very flexible and in many cases liberal grammarians accept more than one alternative while some others insist on only one that they think is right. I would go for has, like you."Our teacher of...

Thanks for your comment, GG. I find English tremendously fascinating just because of all these exceptions, irregularities and oddities. And because there are so few inflections and verb forms, even educated people sometimes disagree on correct usage in cases that seem very clear to me. (The...

Hi BelieverIn my opinion broken is a past participle in sentence (i). It is just used as an adjective, or you could say it is used adjectivally. This is possible in English, and it is necessary as well, because there are hardly any inflections in English and yet it must be possible to convey...

Welcome to EF, Pur. Barking is a present participle in your example. It is used adjectivally, it tells us what kind of a dog is in question or what the dog is doing.Training dogs may be difficult sometimes.This sentence (usually ) means that the dogs are being trained and thus training is a...

If I understand your question correctly, the general term is inflection. wait, waited, waiting; fast, faster, fastest. These are inflected forms. Specifically for verbs, the display of the various inflected forms is called a conjugation. I wait; you wait; he waits; we wait; you wait;...

All the rules for adding S are the same for plurals as for third-person singular present tense verbs, including the words that end in y. That said, there are a few exceptions that you will encounter from time to time, for example, words that end in f or fe. There are so few that you can just...

Digger36 wrote:But what about the SPECIAL cases of the inflection on the 3-rd person singular; it seems less obvious, as in these cases .. he destroys / destroies sand dunes he trys / tries jumping high he carrys / carries the load he ...