Verb
Verb
Verb
– Inflection:
• -s
• - ed1
• - ed2
• - ing
Verbal inflections:
• -s
• - ed1
• -ed2
• -ing
Verb express:
• Tense:
– 16 tenses
Present Simple
Present Continuous
I am walking.
Present Perfect
I have walked.
Past Simple
I walked.
Past Continuous
I was walking.
Past Perfect
I had walked.
– Simple
– Continuous
– Perfect
– Perfect Continuous
• Person / number
– Active
– Passive
• Mood (tryb):
He smokes heavily.
when he is working
We have finished.
– Have tenses
• Non-finite
• auxiliary verbs
may might
must had to
shall should
will would
ought to
I like coffee
I can swim.
I can’t swim.
Auxiliary verbs move in questions and combine with the negative particle
• I needn’t go.