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Verb Forms and Tenses

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Verbs come in different forms and those forms are partly determined by the tense of the verb.

The five forms of verbs are:

  • base form
  • -s
  • -ing
  • past
  • past participle

For example:

The verb sing has the following five forms:

sing, sings, singing, sang, sung

For most regular verbs, two of those forms are the same.

For example:

The verb walk has the following forms:

walk, walks, walking, walked (past and past participle).

For some irregular verbs, three of those forms are the same.

For example:

The verb cut has the following forms:

cut (base, past, and past participle), cuts, cutting

1. The base and -s forms of the verb are used as part of the present tense, for actions that are happening in the present.

For example:

  • She visits her grandma.

2. The -ing form of the verb is used as part of the present progressive tense to show that something is happening at the moment.

For example:

  • She visiting her grandma.

3. The past form of the verb is used as part of the past tense, for actions that happened in the past.

For example:

  • She visited her grandma.

4. The past participle form of the verb is used as part of the past perfect tense to show actions that are continuous or happened over a period of time. It is usually combined with the verb has/have.

For example:

  • She has visited her grandma.
Base -s -ing Past Past Participle
Hold holds holding held held
Help helps helping helped helped
Hit hits hitting hit hit
Hope hopes hoping hoped hoped
Hurt hurts hurting hurt hurt

Verb Forms and Tenses

  • All verbs have five main forms: base, -s, -ing, past, and past participle.
  • For example:
    swim, swims, swimming, swam, swum
  • For most regular verbs, the past and past participle form of the verb are the same.
  • For example:
    visit, visits, visiting, visited (past and past participle)
    call, calls, calling, called (past and past participle)
  • For some irregular verbs, the base, past, and past participle form of the verb are the same.
  • For example:
    put (base, past, and past participle), puts, putting
    shut (base, past, and past participle), shuts, shutting

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