By Simple present, Verbs

The most common form is Simple Present, Simple Past and Past Participle. We should be concerned about how to use the verbs correctly rather than the different names they are called.

My local English books say verb has three forms, such as go, went, and gone, where go is 1st form. went is 2nd form. gone is 3rd form. But on internet these forms have different names. Some webpages say these three forms are simple present, simple past, and past participle. While others say...

Lcchang wrote: I (A) haven't had yet a chance (B) to look over those files, but (C) from what I hear, (D) they're a real mess. I think this is an easier one to do. I will move "yet" to either after "chance" or "files". Is that correct? One more thing to ask. Why is "hear" a present tense? I...

Marius Hancu wrote:Many people think that if the assertion/statement IS STILL valid, you may use the present. However, the past ("was") is the norm after the past ("didn't"). See at the New York Times: 123 from nytimes.com for "didn't know he was" 3 from nytimes.com for "didn't know...

Is this true that simple present tense is being used in passive voice in the following sentence, he is gone?Absolutely not! to go is an intransitive verb. Such verbs have no passive forms. Only transitive verbs can be placed in passive voice. gone is a past participle used as an adjective. ...

Jackson6612 wrote: Hi, Is this true that simple present tense is being used in passive voice in the following sentence, he is gone? No you can't say that. Only transitive verbs can have passive voice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_passive_voice "gone" here is an adjective....

Hi, I was told that in simple present tense first form of verb (e.g. go,eat,rise, etc.) is used. But here in the sentence ''he is gone'' third form is being used.

The -s marks a simple present tense verb with a singular 3rd person subject: I run, you run, he runS, we run, you run, they run.1-- The Ford family had a private funeral service for Gerald Ford.2-- A big piece of ice cracked off from the edge of Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic.

A firefighter fights fires. (about his job, general; the verb is simple present) A firefighter is fighting the/several fires in the appartment building across the street. (specific fires; see the continuous present)

"It doesn't function like the subjunctive." Interesting. Perhaps "to be" is an irregular verb... ...Cf. "I cook, he cooks, they cook"; "I am, he is, they are." It's formed differently from other verbs in the simple present; so why shouldn't it be formed differently in the past...